Finnish court to hold twins in custody over Iraq massacre

A Finnish court was expected to remand in custody Iraqi twin brothers

A Finnish court was expected to remand in custody Iraqi twin brothers suspected of killing 11 people in a massacre by the so-called Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq in 2014.
The Finnish National Bureau suspects the pair, 23-year-old twins from Iraq whose names have not been disclosed, of shooting dead 11 unarmed captives during a massacre in the Iraqi city of Tikrit in June 2014.
In July 2015, ISIS released footage of the Tikrit massacre in which it executed hundreds of mostly-Shia military recruits captured at the Speicher military base in Tikrit, hometown of late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Asylum seekers said that they had sensed something “odd” about the twins’ behavior.
Another man said the twins were openly Sunni and viewed Shia Muslims with disdain.
Finland’s Interior Minister Petteri Orpo reiterated an earlier estimate by the country’s Security Police that around 300 people in the country are known to have connections to “terrorist” elements abroad.