The State Treasury has announced compensation of € 426,000 for Iraqi twins who were first convicted and then released from participating in the massacre in Tikrit, Iraq in 2014.
Identical twins arrived in Finland as asylum seekers in 2015. They were arrested in December of the same year on suspicion of involvement in the murders following allegations made by other Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland who had seen an isis propaganda video showing the massacre.
In 2017, the Tampere Pirkanmaa District Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence of their conviction. The Turku Court of Appeal dismissed all charges against the men in February 2020.
The room challenges the decision
The brothers were arrested and imprisoned for 533 days. The State Treasury considered € 400 a day to be reasonable compensation for its imprisonment – each receiving around € 213,000.
In recent years, the average compensation for illegal detention has been € 120 per day.
Brothers’ lawyer Kaarle Gummerus said he was now considering appealing the amount of compensation.
“The compensation was somewhat lower than what we were looking for. We are now debating whether we accept this or dispute the decision, ”Gummerus said.
The brothers have three months to raise the matter with the state if they do not agree with the decision of the Treasury.
To date, Anneli Auer, who was accused of the murder of her husband and who later found innocent, had been recorded in Finland’s largest daily compensation for unlawful imprisonment – daily allowance of EUR 800, which was almost a half-million compensation.
Source: The Nordic Page