Syrian man given 9.5-year jail term over deadly stabbing in Chemnitz, Germany, last year

Syrian man given 9.5-year jail term over deadly stabbing in Chemnitz, Germany, last year

A 24-year-old Syrian man was on Thursday sentenced to nine and a half years in jail over the fatal stabbing of a man in Chemnitz last year, which sparked far-right violence in the eastern German city.

Alaa Sheikhi, a Syrian who arrived in Germany at the height of the migrant and refugee crisis in 2015, was arrested shortly after the August 26, 2018 killing of Daniel Hillig, 35.