Overview
- The Leoben public prosecutor has filed the indictment, which will be served but is not yet legally final.
- Investigators allege the 18-year-old consumed radical-Islamist content and searched for bomb-making instructions and reports on prior attacks to plan a similar act for IS.
- The charges assert activity as an IS member and support for establishing a radical religious state.
- He was arrested on 20 July and remains in custody, and he denies intending to carry out attacks.
- The case will be heard by a Schöffengericht at the Leoben regional court with a one-to-ten-year penalty range, and a younger accomplice was re-arrested in October over a suspected bid to buy a submachine gun and remains under investigation.