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Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against a suspected member of a militia linked to the Syrian regime. The man is accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in a total of 21 cases, the prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday. Officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office arrested the Syrian in the northern German city of Bremen last August, and he has been held in custody since then. The State Security Senate of the Hamburg Higher Regional Court must now decide whether to schedule a trial. From 2012 to 2015, the man is alleged to have been a member of …

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