A member of a group of Arab students in Hamburg who helped organise the 9/11 attacks on the US in 2001 has been jailed for 15 years by a German court.
Mounir El Motassadeq is one of only two men convicted of involvement in the plot which resulted in the death of nearly 3,000 people.
It was the maximum sentence and in line with the demands of federal prosecutors.
As the verdict was read out at the court in Hamburg, Motassadeq cried out:
“I swear before God that I did not know that they were in America. I swear before God that I did not know what they were planning.”
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