FILE - In this courtroom sketch, defendants from left, Mohamed Abrini, Osama Krayem, Salah Abdeslam and Sofiane Ayari look out from a specially designed glass box during the trial for the Brussels attacks, that took place on March 22, 2016, at the Justitia building in Brussels, Dec. 5, 2022. (Petra Urban via AP, File)
FILE - In this courtroom sketch, defendants from left, Mohamed Abrini, Osama Krayem, Salah Abdeslam and Sofiane Ayari look out from a specially designed glass box during the trial for the Brussels attacks, that took place on March 22, 2016, at the Justitia building in Brussels, Dec. 5, 2022. (Petra Urban via AP, File)
FILE - Workers raise a banner with a photo of Jordanian pilot Lt. Mu'ath al-Kaseasbeh, held captive by the Islamic State group, outside a tent for supporters in Amman, Jordan, on Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish man was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for his role in the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State militant group, Swedish media reported.
, 1st Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, was taken captive after his F-16 fighter jet crashed near the extremists’ de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria. He was forced into a cage that was set on fire in early 2015.
The suspect, identified by Swedish prosecutors as , 32, is alleged to have traveled to Syria in September 2014 to fight for IS.
Swedish prosecutors say Krayem, armed and masked, was among those who forced al-Kaseasbeh into the cage. The pilot died in the fire.
Krayem was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, Swedish news agency TT reported. He was indicted by Swedish prosecutors in May on suspicion of committing serious war crimes and terrorist crimes in Syria.
He was previously convicted in France and Brussels for fatal Islamic State attacks in those countries.
to fall into the militants’ hands after the U.S.-led international coalition began its aerial campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq in 2014.
Jordan, a close U.S. ally, was a member of the coalition and the pilot’s killing appeared aimed at pressuring the government of Jordan to leave the alliance.
, purportedly showing al-Kaseasbeh’s killing, he displayed signs of having been beaten, including a black eye. He is shown wearing an orange jumpsuit and standing in an outdoor cage as a masked militant ignites a line of fuel leading to it.
The footage, widely released as part of the militant group’s propaganda, sparked outrage and anti-IS demonstrations in Jordan.
In 2022, Krayem was convicted by in Paris for involvement in a wave of Islamic State attacks in the French capital in 2015, targeting the Bataclan theater, Paris cafés and the national stadium. The assaults killed 130 people and injured hundreds, .
Krayem was sentenced to 30 years in prison, for charges including complicity to terrorist murder. French media reported that France agreed in March to turn Krayem over to Sweden for the investigation and trial.
, among others, to life in prison on charges of terrorist murder in connection with 2016 suicide bombings that killed 32 people and wounded hundreds at Brussels airport and a busy subway station in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.
Krayem was aboard the commuter train that was hit, but did not detonate the explosives he was carrying.
Both the Paris and Brussels attacks were linked to the same Islamic State network.
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