Overview

• A 16-year-old from Wuppertal was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for planning an Islamist-motivated attack on a Jewish institution.
• The court found the teenager guilty of declaring his willingness to commit murder, based on evidence from online communications.
• During the trial, the individual admitted to the charges and acknowledged being radicalized by professional recruiters during a personal crisis.
• While in pretrial detention, the teenager contacted a deradicalization program, which the court considered as a mitigating factor in sentencing.
• The verdict is not yet final and may be appealed to Germany's Federal Court of Justice.