Overview
- Prosecutors allege the teen hurled a homemade explosive-incendiary device into Café Omonia in August 2025 while four guests and the operator were inside.
- The café owner kept an escape route clear, enabling all five people to flee without serious harm, according to authorities.
- The suspect was arrested near the scene the same day and remains in pretrial detention, and the Frankfurt regional court will decide on opening the main trial.
- The indictment cites causing an explosion and particularly severe arson in addition to five counts of attempted murder, with alleged murder characteristics of treachery, greed, and use of life‑endangering means.
- Investigators say he was recruited and paid in the Netherlands, brought to Hesse, and guided before the attack, and they are probing links to similar recent blasts and arsons in Frankfurt, Offenbach, and Taunusstein involving Dutch suspects.