HAMBURG, Dec. 4 -- Relatives of American victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks expressed their grief in a German court Thursday and asked its panel of judges to sentence a Moroccan man accused of being an accessory in the plot to the maximum prison term.
Abdelghani Mzoudi, 30, an engineering student, is charged with more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder and membership in a terrorist organization for allegedly providing logistical support to the Hamburg cell that led the attacks. In February, another Moroccan, Mounir Motassadeq, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the maximum allowed, on the same charges. He has appealed.
"It is difficult to lose a loved one in a tragedy, but it is devastating to lose him to murder," Debra Burlingame of Pelham Manor, N.Y., said about the death of her brother, Charles Burlingame III, the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. "He was slaughtered like an animal. . . . I respectfully ask that if [Mzoudi] is convicted, he be sentenced to the maximum penalty available, 15 years."
Burlingame said that would amount to less than two days in prison for each victim. After the hearing, Burlingame described Mzoudi as "an unreachable, lost soul."
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Abdelghani Mzoudi, 30, an engineering student, is charged with more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder and membership in a terrorist organization for allegedly providing logistical support to the Hamburg cell that led the attacks. In February, another Moroccan, Mounir Motassadeq, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the maximum allowed, on the same charges. He has appealed.
"It is difficult to lose a loved one in a tragedy, but it is devastating to lose him to murder," Debra Burlingame of Pelham Manor, N.Y., said about the death of her brother, Charles Burlingame III, the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. "He was slaughtered like an animal. . . . I respectfully ask that if [Mzoudi] is convicted, he be sentenced to the maximum penalty available, 15 years."
Burlingame said that would amount to less than two days in prison for each victim. After the hearing, Burlingame described Mzoudi as "an unreachable, lost soul."
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