Syrian teen on trial in Cologne over ISIS bomb plot

  21 February 2017    Read: 1238
Syrian teen on trial in Cologne over ISIS bomb plot
A 16-year-old Syrian refugee went on trial in Cologne on Monday accused of planning a bomb attack on behalf of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
The teenager was arrested at an asylum shelter in the western city of Cologne in September. Police at the time said the suspect’s mobile phone showed he had been in touch with an IS contact abroad and had expressed willingness to carry out an attack.

Investigators found online chat messages on the phone that included “concrete instructions” for building an explosive device, prosecutors added. Officers searching his accommodation discovered a battery pack, 70 sewing needles and several butane gas cartridges - items that could be used to prepare a bomb, DPA reported.

The teenager and his family were among the nearly 900,000 migrants and refugees who arrived in Germany in 2015.

/AFP/

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