Germany deports Iranian killers despite Israeli
protest
December
10, 2007
Berlin, Germany, -- An Iranian man convicted
of shooting to death four opponents of Tehran in a
Berlin restaurant 15 years ago was prematurely
released from prison on Monday, German officials
said.
Kazem Darabi was placed in a prison transport
vehicle and driven from the German capital to
Frankfurt where he was due to be put on a plane for
Tehran in the evening, a spokesman for Berlin's
internal affairs department said.
The fate of a Lebanese national, Abbas Rhayel, who
along with Darabi was sentenced in 1997 to life
imprisonment for the four murders, remained unclear.
Federal prosecutors in the southern city of
Karlsruhe announced the two months ago that the men
would be paroled and later said this would happen by
December 24.
The court that convicted them said they were leaders
of a gang setup by the Iranian Islamist authorities
to kill the leaders of the opposition Kurdistan
Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) while they were
dining at a Greek restaurant called Mykonos in
September 1992.
Dr. Said Sharafkandi, and two other comrades, were
assassinated on 17 September 1992 in Berlin's
Mykonos Restaurant,www.ekurd.net
barely a few hours after
they had attended the Congress of the Socialist
International that was being held on that city.
It found the assassinations were ordered by a
"commission for special affairs" comprising top
figures of the Iranian regime. The other two members
of the murder gang to be convicted in Germany were
deported in 1999 to Lebanon. |
Dr. Said Sharafkandi, (KDPI) leader, assassinated on 17 September
1992 in Berlin's Mykonos Restaurant by Iranian
Islamist agents
A photo taken in 1992 in Berlin shows police
officers and onlookers standing in front of the
Mykonos Greek restaurant after four top Iranian Kurd
opposition were assassinated. |
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