Germany charges 22-year-old man with joining IS in Syria

German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against a 22-year-old man accused of joining the Islamic State group in Syria and appearing in propaganda videos.

Federal prosecutors said today that the German national, identified only as Tarik S because of German privacy rules, was charged with membership in a foreign terrorist organisation and deprivation of liberty among other things.

He's alleged to have joined IS around January 2014, fighting and manning a checkpoint where he held a truck driver for a day because he was transporting large quantities of cigarettes. He's also accused of appearing in IS videos, in one of which he mocked a decapitated corpse.
 

The suspect returned to Germany in March because his wife was pregnant. He was arrested at Frankfurt airport.