A 16-year-old Syrian, identified as Mohammad A, was convicted in Berlin for preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state and supporting a terrorist act abroad and received an 18-month suspended sentence. He was radicalised by Islamic State propaganda online and sent a video with instructions on building a bomb, and put another teenager in Austria in contact with an IS member. Mohammad A confessed during the trial. The Vienna leg of Taylor Swift's Eras tour was cancelled after arrests linked to the plot. Austrian authorities detained three teenage suspects and say US intelligence helped thwart the attack.
The 16-year-old defendant, named by prosecutors as Mohammad A, was found guilty of preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state and supporting a terrorist act abroad. He was given an 18-month suspended sentence. Mohammad A, who was 14 at the time of the foiled attack, had been radicalised by IS [Islamic State] propaganda on the internet, the court said. He was found guilty of providing support to another teenager in Austria in plotting the atrocity.
The defendant sent him a video with instructions on how to build a bomb and put him in contact with an IS member, the court said. Mohammad A made a full confession during the trial. The Vienna leg of Swift's tour was called off last August after two people were arrested over an apparent plot to launch an attack on a public event in the Austrian capital.
Austrian authorities have detained three suspects over the plot, which was thwarted with the help of US intelligence all of them teenagers at the time. The main suspect is an Austrian with North Macedonian roots who has confessed that he intended to carry out an attack using explosives and knives, according to Austrian intelligence. Police first took Mohammad A into custody last September in the eastern city of Frankfurt an der Oder, where the then 15-year-old went to school.
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