Augsburg District Court sentences young people to three years in prison after plotting an attack and explosion in October 2025.
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A 16-year-old IS sympathizer caused an explosion with a homemade bomb in October 2025 and was arrested.
A 16-year-old teenager has been sentenced to a three-year youth prison sentence for several crimes in connection with supporting the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS).
As a spokesman for the Augsburg district court said after the verdict, the defendant made a partial confession in the trial. Due to the age of the accused, the proceedings were conducted behind closed doors. The judgment is not yet legally binding.
According to the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office, the young person is an IS sympathizer. According to investigators, he had kept a large amount of pyrotechnic items at the age of 15. Prosecutors are convinced that this was intended to be used to commit an attack on a synagogue, for example.
The court considers the amount of explosives to be aggravating the punishment
The teenager is said to have caused an explosion with a self-made bomb at the end of October 2025, injuring himself and another person. A short time later he was taken into custody. The German was then charged with preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state, financing terrorism, intentionally unauthorized handling of explosive substances, causing an explosive explosion and grievous bodily harm.
When sentencing, the defendant's partial confession and his own injuries were taken into account in his favor. According to the court spokesman, the juvenile lay judge's court judged the commission of several criminal offenses, the large amount of explosives seized and the support of the IS terrorist organization to be aggravating the punishment.
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