![]() This time Bunni was working with the authorities, assisting German prosecutors, while the other Anwar faced prison. Yet within four years, the two men’s paths would cross again, their former positions reversed, as Germany prepared a landmark court case. “I don’t hate him as a person,” Bunni says of Raslan. Raslan became a police officer, before transferring to the intelligence services, where he would help detain Bunni.Īt the time, Bunni thought little more of the meeting, settling back to his legal files, pursuing at a distance the same struggle against the Syrian state and its abusers that had consumed him for decades. ![]() The two Anwars, born four years apart, had both studied law, but chose to use it on opposite sides of Syria’s authoritarian political system. “Then, after a few days, one of my friends said, ‘Did you know Anwar Raslan is in Marienfelde with you?’ And then I realised.” I didn’t want to believe that Europe would spend all this time standing by and watching. “I was with my wife, and I said to her, ‘I know this man’ but I couldn’t remember who he was,” he recalls.
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