The boy had began to turn into “radicalised” in autumn 2023, the courtroom mentioned.
Berlin:
A German courtroom on Friday sentenced a 15-year-old boy to 4 years in jail for planning an Islamist assault on a Christmas market within the western metropolis of Leverkusen.
{The teenager} wished to lease a truck and “kill as many individuals as potential” by ramming it into the normal market, the courtroom in Cologne mentioned in a press release.
The boy had began to turn into “radicalised” in autumn 2023, the courtroom mentioned.
The proof in opposition to him included a video in a chat group saying his plans for an assault on “infidels” with a recognisable Islamist image within the background.
The boy had deliberate the assault together with one other teenager who was purported to movie it and share the video, the courtroom mentioned.
The 16-year-old from Brandenburg, the state that surrounds Berlin, will stand trial in a distinct courtroom from July.
The 15-year-old made a “complete confession” throughout his trial, a courtroom spokesman informed AFP.
Islamist extremists have carried out a number of assaults in Germany lately, the deadliest being a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 folks.
Extra just lately, an Islamist motive is suspected within the killing of a police officer in a knife assault available on the market sq. within the metropolis of Mannheim in late Might.
The variety of folks thought-about Islamist extremists in Germany fell barely from 27,480 in 2022 to 27,200 final 12 months, in response to a report from the federal home intelligence company.
Nevertheless, in presenting the report, Inside Minister Nancy Faeser mentioned Germany can be “persevering with to step up the combat in opposition to Islamist terrorism”.
In one other case involving youngsters, two boys and two ladies aged 15 to 16 had been arrested at Easter this 12 months on suspicion of planning an Islamist assault in the identical area of western Germany.
Herbert Reul, inside minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, mentioned the younger age of the suspects left him “speechless”, including that it posed a “enormous problem for society as an entire”.
Germany’s biggest-selling every day Bild reported that the 4 youths had been allegedly planning to hold out Molotov cocktail and knife assaults within the title of the Islamic State group.
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