Overview

• The Kammergericht Berlin found the Syrian, now 16, guilty of preparing a serious state-endangering violent act and supporting a terrorist act abroad.
• Judges imposed one and a half years of youth imprisonment, suspended on probation, after a comprehensive confession in a closed hearing.
• Prosecutors said he sent a bomb-making video, translated a manual from Arabic, mediated contact to an IS member, and provided an oath template.
• Austrian authorities uncovered the plan in time, prompting the cancellation of three Vienna concerts and arrests on August 7, 2024.
• The sentence matches requests from the Federal Prosecutor and the defense and is not yet legally binding, while investigations in Austria continue.