Three teenagers planned a terrorist attack – potential targets were a church or synagogue or a police station. They apparently also wanted to kill as many people as possible. Fortunately, the teenagers were caught in time.
On Friday, the district court in Düsseldorf sentenced two girls ( aged 16 and 17) and a boy ( aged 16) to three years in youth prison each for conspiracy to commit murder and arson resulting in death!
The girls from Düsseldorf and Iserlohn and the boy from Lippstadt had ‘radicalised themselves with the ideology of this terrorist organisation by consuming propaganda material from the so-called Islamic State (IS) on the internet and via social media’, the court announced at the end of the non-public hearing.
During Ramadan 2024 (March, April), the trio and a young man from Ostfildern in Swabia, who had already been sentenced to two years’ probation, had decided to commit a terrorist attack within two months.
Police stations, railway stations and courtrooms in Hamburg, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Iserlohn and Stuttgart were initially targeted.
Court spokeswoman Dr Vera Drees: ‘Ultimately, they were determined to attack police stations or places of worship (churches, synagogues) while many people were present, set them on fire with Molotov cocktails and use firearms and stabbing weapons to kill as many people as possible.
One of the teenagers obtained bomb-making instructions on the internet and made them available to her accomplice. However, the police were already on the trail of the terrorist teenagers and eventually arrested them. The trio have been in custody since Easter 2024.
A defence lawyer has announced an appeal and a prison appeal.
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