FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A Kosovo Albanian man accused of shooting dead two U.S. airmen and wounding two others at Frankfurt airport in March appeared in a packed German court on Wednesday for the start of his trial.
German federal prosecutors have charged Arid Uka with two counts of murder and three of attempted murder, and say his actions were motivated by radical Islamist beliefs.
Crowds of people queued to enter the court house in the western city of Frankfurt for the trial of the 21-year-old man.
Uka, who was working at the airport’s international postal center at the time of the attack, has confessed to firing on the U.S. airmen at point-blank range with a 9mm pistol.
The attack shocked U.S. citizens and even U.S. President Barack Obama expressed outrage.
Prosecutors have said Uka wanted revenge for U.S. operations in Afghanistan. They have described how the gunman walked up to airmen boarding a U.S. Army
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