Tarek Mousli

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Tarek Mohamad Ali Mousli (* in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a 4th dan karateka . He was an active member of the Revolutionary Cells (RZ).

Tarek Mohamad Ali Mousli was born in Lebanon. His father came from the Saudi Arabian royal family and his German mother works as a stewardess . Mousli's father died in a plane crash. His family then moved from Saudi Arabia to northern Germany. Tarek Mousli attended boarding school. After graduating from high school, at the age of 20, he made his first contacts with the squatter scene in Kiel . Later he went to the Free University of Berlin to study and lived there in squats in Kreuzberg . One of his siblings was supposed to be deported to Lebanon in the 1980s and therefore had to seek psychiatric treatment. According to Tagesspiegel , Tarek Mousli said that he hates the deportation authorities.

Mousli ran two martial arts studios in Prenzlauer Berg and Marzahn . Among other things, he trained the martial arts specialists of the police and karateka of the federal squad. Mousli was one of the 20 karateka in the Federal Republic of Germany who were allowed to wear the 4th dan .

By chance, around ten kilograms of explosives were found in Mousli's cellar, which he had stored there. Mousli was arrested in 1999 based on the testimony of his former girlfriend, confessed and offered himself as a key witness . His statements led to the arrest of a number of previously undiscovered members of the data center.

Mousli was charged with membership in a terrorist organization, causing a bomb attack and violating the Explosives Act. He was accused of having played a key role in the preparation and implementation of a total of three attacks by the RZ in Berlin. Because of his extensive testimony, Mousli received two years probation for his involvement in the December 2000 attacks.

During the process against other members of the RZ, which lasted three years until 2004, he was strongly protected by bodyguards of the BKA .

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Matthias Borgmann, who was betrayed by Mousli, told the taz in 2017 : “I would very much like to understand more precisely what was going on in Tarek Mousli at the time.” He does not believe that there is anything in the investigation files on Mousli that is “only halfway true corresponds to ". “Something besides the RZ story” must have made Mousli blackmailable for the investigators. “He made use of the leniency program and witness protection for reasons that have nothing to do with the data center.” Borgmann points out that Mousli was very unreliable in financial matters. “Weapons were traded in the vicinity of his sports studio. He also had contacts with certain Kurdish circles. Likewise to people who had to do with East-West money laundering, the great Stasi money dump . Such milieus is not to be joked with. The reason should be found somewhere. "

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  2. ^ A b Michael Sontheimer: KRONZEUGEN: Absolutely sure . In: Der Spiegel . tape June 26 , 2004 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  3. Felix Langhammer, Axel Gebauer ;: RZ member in court (new Germany) . ( neue-deutschland.de [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  4. Sabine Deckwerth: Five defendants convicted of terrorist attacks: imprisonment for "revolutionary cells" . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  5. Andreas Fanizadeh : Ex-militant on the political past: "He's already very close" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 5, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 10, 2017]).