The jurists considered the acts of killing and mutilation as terrorist crimes, warning of the moral and psychological harm such crimes may cause to the families of the martyrs and people.
"Those heinous crimes must be punished with all means because they are considered as crimes against the state internal security… The state should use all means to protect citizens and maintain the country's security and stability," Dr. Issa Makhoul, Professor of the Faculty of Law at Damascus University said in a statement to SANA.
Dr. Adib Akil, Head of Sociology Department at Damascus University said the body mutilation was existed throughout history, adding "mutilation comes from a number of reasons including the malice, hatred of some terrorists to feed sedition and instigation."
"The purpose of those heinous acts is to harm the state dignity, threat social and national security and destabilize the country where the terrorists started to target the most difficult link, which means members of the army and security personnel," Dr. Akil said.
In Aleppo, Mufti of the northern Syrian city Mahmoud Akkam underlined that those crimes are inhuman, saying "bloodshed and targeting the properties are prohibited in Islam… our prophet Mohammad prohibited killing the innocents."
For his part, Professor of the psychological Hygiene at Aleppo University Mohamad Abdullah described the behavior of those who carried out the massacres and acts of mutilation as unsociable behavior or anti-sociable personality.
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