It may be a little late, but here a new identity of an executioner in November 2014 #IS video ‘Although the disbelievers dislike it’ revealed. Arben Imishti, a #Kosovo citizen living in #Belgium, joined beheading of Syrian soldiers (1/10) hln.be/de-krant/man-u…
Back in 2014, Belgian security services thought that they had recognized another Belgian in that video — the same in which #JihadiJohn appeared with executed US hostage Peter Kassig. But that identification turned out to be false (2/10)
The appearance of Imishti in the video was confirmed by relatives however, and next month he will be tried for ‘terrorist murder’— a qualification that has led to a conviction only once before in a Belgian court (3/10)
Imishti will be tried in absentia, since his current whereabouts are unknown. According to his family, he was killed in the ranks of IS in March of last year. But Belgian authorities are sceptical since phone taps revealed intention to return (4/10)
Imishti’s mother and sister were defendants at a separate trial already for sending him money — knowing that the funds would benefit IS, according to the prosecution. No verdict in that trial yet (5/10)
Key defendant in the finance case is Kastriot Matoshi, a Kosovar living in the Belgian town of Sint-Niklaas. He was charged as a recruiter and the one who channeled an amount of 23,000 euros to Imishti and thus to IS (6/10)
Matoshi’s brother Patriot was known in Syria as the right hand man of Lavdrim Muhaxheri, the most senior Kosovar within IS. It was Muhaxheri who announced the death of Arben Imishti in a personal phone call to Imishti’s mother (7/10)
Imishti’s family settled in Schoten near Antwerp in 1994, when he was 14 y/o. In 2002, he was expelled for being “a threat to public order” — known as drug addict and criminal twice convicted already (8/10)
He could come back to Belgium in 2009, thanks to Belgian citizenship his family members obtained. In the meantime, he had also been in prison in Sweden and made his family pay for the son he had in Kosovo (9/10)
He left for Syria on the 11th of September 2014 by bus through Macedonia & Turkey — only two months before his appearance as a beheader (10/10)
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