Syrian in Germany gets 15 years for throwing his children out window
Prosecutors say Hassan Z. was punishing his wife for refusing to obey him after family left Syria
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Illustrative: A migrant child sits outside the State Office of Health and Social Affairs in Berlin (LAGeSo) where hundreds of migrants wait to receive help from the Berlin administration on August 25, 2015. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)
BERLIN — A Syrian asylum-seeker has been convicted of three counts of attempted murder for throwing his children out of the window of a refugee home in Germany. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The dpa news agency says the 35-year-old Syrian, identified only as Hassan Z. in line with German privacy laws, was convicted Thursday at the Bonn state court.
Prosecutors say he threw the three children out of a second-floor window of the facility in February to punish his wife because, he claimed, she refused to obey him after the family moved to Germany.
The children — aged 1, 5 and 7 at the time — survived but the mother says the two oldest are still experiencing health problems from the fall.
Copyright 2016 The Associated Press.
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