Three teenagers aged between 15 and 16 years old They have been in preventive detention since last Easter after being denounced by the German public prosecutor’s office for being suspected of wanting to commit attacks in the name of Islamic State (EI) in Germany, as reported by the newspaper Picture.
“The prosecution accuses them of having planned attacks against churches, train stations, courts and police stations on behalf of ISIS,” explain the German media. According to the newspaper, the youths, who failed to develop plans for their attacks, They spoke of attacks with knives and Molotov cocktails..
If the accusations are confirmed, it is specified, Albina H. (16 years old) from Iserlohn, Wiam S. (15 years old) from Düsseldorf and Julius S. (15 years old) from Lippstadt will have to answer for their actions in court . “for having prepared a serious act of violence endangering the State”. The prosecution bases its accusation on data from a Telegram chat in which they, together with Yusa P. (16), planned attacks on churches, train stations, courts and police stations in the name of ISIS .
The three NRW judges had an Islamist attack with planted bombs. Seit Ostern sind die Verdächtigen in U-Haft. You can use the Anklage erhoben. pic.twitter.com/OejtLq1YWh
– WDR Actor (@WDRaktuell) October 6, 2024
Picture indicates that Albina H. intended to leave the country and flee to the Middle East to join the terrorist organization. A goal that he admitted to Wiam S. via Telegram and which set off the alarm.
In 2018, Wiam’s father, Tijani S. (44), was also investigated for financing of terrorismspecifically for ISIS, in addition to having found a gun in his car.
Albina and Wiam’s conversation was the first clue to uncover the rest of the plot and trace the conversation between Yusa and Julius (a convert). They mentioned stabbing and Molotov cocktail attacks against the cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund. In addition to his desire to obtain firearms.
The police, according to Pictureplaces Julius as the instigator of the plot which envisaged the Easter as the best time to carry out the series of attacks. It was at this time, in March 2024, that they were arrested. During the operation, a machete and a dagger were confiscated from Wiam, at his home in Düsseldorf.
