A convicted Swedish member of the ISIL was tried in Stockholm and was charged with war crimes for his role in the terrifying 2015 killing of a captured Jordanian pilot who was burned to death in Syria.
"Osama Krayem, who jointly and agreed to other perpetrators belonging to IS (ISIL), killed Maaz al-Kassasbeh," prosecutor Reena Devgun told the District Court on Wednesday.
“Osama Krayem, in uniform and armed, guarded the victim Moaz al-Kassasbeh to the metal cage, who was subsequently locked. A co-driver then set fire to Moaz al-Kassasbeh, who had no chance of defending himself or seeking help,” he said.
Swedish prosecutor Henrik Olin told AFP that the case was considered unique because Swedish prosecutor Henrik Olin told AFP that the brutal killings of international outrage were sparked at the time.
Krayem, 32, wore a dark blue shirt, with a thick beard and long and loose black hair, with a back to a few journalists and audiences, following Wednesday's proceedings behind a glass wall in the Stockholm District Court High Security Court.
He seemed calm when the charges were filed, and if Krayem was convicted, it could result in life imprisonment.
Prosecutors said the victims were seen passing several masked ISIL fighters, including Krem, in the 22-minute video of the killing.
The pilot, 26, was locked in a cage and prayed when he caught fire.
Prosecutors were unable to determine the exact date of the murder, but the investigation has determined the location.
The defendant's attorney, Petra Eklund, told AFP before the trial began that her client admitted to being present but objected to the version of the prosecution.
"He denied his prosecution," she said.
She added: “He admitted to attending the location during the event but claimed that he did not take action in the way the prosecutor described in the facts.”
Devgun announced the charge last week that it was attributed to the scars on the suspect's eyebrows and was found by Belgian police and found by Belgian police, which led to an investigation.
The pilot's father, Safi Al-Kassasbeh, told AFP on Wednesday that his family hoped Krayem "to be subject to the severest fine based on the scale of the crime."
"This is our expectation for a respected and fair law," he said.
Krayem, whose roles were 30 years and lives in the 2015 and 2016 Paris and Brussels attacks, have been sentenced to long-term jail for his role in the Paris and Brussels attacks.
Now he faces charges of "serious war crimes and terrorist crimes" for alleged involvement in the killings of Al-Kassasbeh.
Al-Kassasbeh's shocked Jordan was at the time in a US-led coalition strike on the ISIL position on Syria's Islamic State - the reason why ISIL killed Syrian pilots. Jordan mourned for a while after the pilot died.
On December 24, 2014, a plane belonging to the Royal Jordanian Air Force crashed in Syria.
The pilot was captured by ISIL Fighters located near the central city of Raqqa and burned alive in a cage sometime before February 3, 2015, when a terrible video tape appeared.
The Islamic State of Iraq, which then controlled most of Syria and Iraq, has been demanding the release of Sajida al-Rishawi, held by Jordanian authorities since 2005 in exchange for the life of Al-Kassasbeh.
Rishawi was sentenced to death after a triple bomb attack at the Radisson Sas Hotel in the capital Amman.
Promotional videos, in which ISIL also called for the killing of other Jordanian pilots, are one of the earliest videos released by the group.
Krayem has been temporarily handed over to Sweden for trial, which was originally scheduled to last until June 26.