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Syrian refugee sentenced for bomb plot in Germany
2018-12-01
[AlMasdar] A 20 year old Syrian refugee
...who is quite probably neither Syrian nor so young as twenty, nor even a proper refugee...
has been cconvicted of planning a kaboom in Germany, DW reported on Friday.

According to the DW report, a German court handed the Syrian refugee a six-and-a-half year long prison sentence for planning to carry out a kaboom.

The Syrian refugee was identified as Yamen A;
...which may or may not be his real name, though if he really is Syrian, it’s actually a good deal longer...
he was locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
inside the northern Germany city of Schwerin in late 2017.

Initially, the prosecution was seeking a five-and-a-half year long sentence for the Syrian man because he was planning to kill and injure over 200 people with a boom-mobile.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
the judge ultimately handed down a harsher sentence because of the Syrian man’s ’determination’ to carry out the kaboom.

"You wanted to take lives, and in doing so endanger the security of the state," presiding Judge Ulrike Taeubner told the defendant.
Deutsche Welle adds:
Prosecutors told the court that the accused had discussed bomb-making methods in online chatrooms, and had tried several times to concoct triacetone triperoxide (TATP)
...a.k.a. Mother of Satan for reasons that quickly become obvious...
— an unstable explosive that has been used in several attacks in Europe, including at a concert in Manchester in 2017, in Brussels in 2016 and in Paris in 2015.

The suspect arrived in Germany in September 2015 after fleeing Syria. He was granted asylum in February 2016. He initially shared a flat with other young refugees in Schwerin before moving into his own place.

According to authorities, he was radicalized over the internet, and by mid-2017 had become a supporter of the so-called "Islamic State."

Friday's verdict is not yet legally binding and can be appealed.
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