US EditionGerman prosecutors charge Russian with planning attack on Israeli embassy in Berlin
The 18-year-old suspect, detained since February, is charged with preparing violence and ISIS membership, highlighting concerns about youth radicalization in Germany, prosecutors said.
- On Aug. 7, German federal prosecutors charged Akhmad E., a Russian national, with plotting an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin and attempting to join Islamic State while still a minor.
- From the beginning of February, Akhmad E. allegedly planned an attack in Germany but failed to build explosives after seeking online instructions; he was arrested on Feb. 20 in Brandenburg at Berlin airport.
- Authorities say Akhmad E. translated ISIS propaganda into Russian and Chechen, intended to travel to Pakistan for training, and financed the trip by selling phones from two fraudulent mobile phone contracts.
- The indictment was filed earlier this month to a court in Berlin, which must decide whether to send the case to trial; Akhmad E. has been detained since his arrest at Berlin airport in February.
- The case underscores concerns about Islamist radicalisation among young people in Germany, highlighting risks to Israeli and Jewish targets and foreign contacts outside Germany, prosecutors say.
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German prosecutors charge Russian with planning attack on Israeli embassy in Berlin
German prosecutors have charged a Russian national they suspect of planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin and of trying to join militant organisation Islamic State, they said on Wednesday.
Plans of explosives and a video with oath of loyalty: The Federal Prosecutor's Office accuses a Chechen support for a terrorist association. Now the Berlin Chamber Court decides on the prosecution.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against a suspected supporter of the IS terror militia.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against a suspected supporter of the IS terrorist militia, who is said to have planned, among other things, an attack on the Israeli embassy.
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Authorities charge man suspected of planning attack in Germany, possibly targeting Israeli Embassy
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors announced terrorism charges Wednesday against a man who they say may have planned to attack the Israeli Embassy in Berlin and intended to join the Islamic State group in Pakistan. The suspect, a Russian national identified only as Akhmad E. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested on Feb. 20 at the capital’s airport as he prepared to board a flight. He has now been indicted on charges of supporting a forei…
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