No asylum for terrorist member

luxembourg - The asylum application of a person who has been active may be turned down for a terrorist network, even if the person has not committed terrorist acts or have switched so. That the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday.

The court issued a ruling in the case of the Moroccan Mostafa Lounani. The court in Brussels sentenced him in 2006 to six years in prison as one of the leaders of the Belgian cell of the Islamic group GICM fighters. Among his supplied false passports for sending 'volunteers' to Iraq.

Louani early 2010 asylum in Belgium, for fear of persecution in Morocco. The application was first rejected, but the State Council in 2012 ruled that that had to be paid because the man has not been convicted of a terrorist act. When an appeal was lodged, asked the Council of State opinion to the court.

The judges in Luxembourg now argue that an asylum application can be rejected if an applicant does not personally committed terrorist crimes. They refer to a UN Security Council Resolution 2014 on the growing threat of foreign terrorist fighters and international terrorist networks. It follows, according to the court that people who recruit or help jihadists can be denied refugee status.

GICM state since 2002 on a UN sanctions list of terrorist organizations.