A court in the German city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia has upheld a verdict on the deportation of a Tunisian terrorist inmate to his home country.
The federal administrative court in Aachen rejected on Wednesday a request made by the lawyer of the Tunisian suspect to stop his deportation.
The 42-year-old has been living in Germany since 2000. He was sentenced to prison in 2016 on terrorism charges, including helping extremists join ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Wednesday’s verdict came amid controversy on the German authorities’ deportation of a Tunisian identified only as Ahmed A., to his native Tunisia despite a court verdict allowing him to stay in Germany a day before the deportation.
Ahmed A. is accused of being the bodyguard for then al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
But Tunisian authorities have said they will not deport him back to Germany. He will be tried according to the law on suspicion of terrorism outside the borders of the homeland.
German-Tunisian cooperation in terrorism-related cases is the result of a visit made by Tunisia’s Prime Minister Youssef Chahed to Berlin on February 2017 in the aftermath of the terrorist attack committed by Anis Amri, 24, in the city.
