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| 14-year-old planned to blow up Austrian train station | |
| 2015-05-27 | |
| h/t Gates of Vienna An Austrian court has found a 14-year-old boy guilty of planning to blow up Vienna's main railway station after being radicalized by Islamic extremists. The court also found the defendant guilty of planning to join extremist fighters in the Middle East, a punishable offense in Austria. The unidentified youth
The proceedings Tuesday were in the city of St. Poelten, west of Vienna. Police say they found plans for such an attack on the boy's computer and defense lawyer Rudolf Mayer said his client acknowledges his guilt. EUropeans are an inspiration to us all. | |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 No Father, + even iff he did Big Daddy as a Muslim may have too many additional wives to bothering talking to his kids or being a part of their life. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-05-27 22:10 |
| #2 Good for his family. The only bright spot in this report. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-05-27 14:33 |
| #1 An Nahar has some background on the lad: The teenager of Turkish origin was found guilty of belonging to a "terrorist" organization and given an additional suspended jail sentence of 16 months by a court in his hometown of Sankt-Poelten. According to the charge sheet, the teenager, who emigrated from Turkey in 2007, wanted to carry out the attack before traveling to join "holy war" in Syria alongside the Islamic State (IS) group. His lawyer Rudolf Mayer said his client -- who he said grew up "without a father" and who turns 15 in the coming days -- had only been "playing with the idea" of making a bomb. Placed in a special school for troubled children where "prospects for professional development are almost inexistent," the boy had "looked for recognition, to belong to something," Mayer told the court. "Imagine the power of propaganda that says to young people who feel they are living an empty existence: 'You can do something good, and get money and women'," he said. It was his own family who alerted authorities to his growing radicalization. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-27 09:08 |