RoP News }: Muslim charged over planned Islamic State attack in Stockholm

[duluxe]

STOCKHOLM - Swedish prosecutors on Thursday charged a Syrian-Swedish dual national captured in an undercover sting operation with planning a suicide bomb attack on a crowded Stockholm culture festival, on behalf of the Islamic State militant group.

The prosecutor said the 18-year-old, who was arrested in February, had been planning to blow himself up at the Stockholm Culture Festival which drew 2 million visitors over the span of five days in August.

Described as a "self-radicalised" young man who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, he was charged with planning a terrorist crime and being a member of a terrorist organisation. The man denies the charges and was not named by the prosecutor.



"There was a clear will to commit an attack, an attack with the intent to cause as much damage to human life as possible," prosecutor Carl Mellberg told a news conference.

The man's lawyer did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Police used an undercover agent who claimed to be part of a militant Islamist movement and coaxed the man into believing they would carry out the attack together.

The suspect was arrested after he had reconnoitered locations and purchased materials to make a bomb, and bought a body camera to record the attack.

 

[syed putra]

Wasnt sweden part of the coalition of the willing which bombed iraq to smithereens and detainees were tortured and Humiliated and turned into murderous human drone terror groups under US command who now rules syria?