A court in the German state of Thuringia sentenced two men from Afghanistan who had planned a terrorist attack on the Swedish parliament.
The men, identified in court as Ibrahim M. and Ramin N., were arrested in 2024 in the city of Gera in eastern Germany while returning from the Czech Republic, where they had unsuccessfully tried to acquire firearms for the attack. The terrorists, who had radicalized via the internet, had long been under the surveillance of the constitutional police, according to Bild.
The court found it proven that the two Afghan refugees had planned an attack on the Swedish parliament on behalf of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” and intended to shoot at least ten members of parliament.
Ibrahim M., who admitted to most of the charges during the trial — including membership in and support for a terrorist organization abroad, as well as conspiracy to commit murder — was sentenced to five years and six months in prison.
24-year-old Ramin N. denied the intent to carry out the attack until the very end, but the court found evidence of the attack plan in Telegram chats. He was sentenced to four years and two months in prison.
The defendants’ lawyers called for lighter sentences, while the prosecution sought harsher penalties. The court’s decision is not yet final, Bild clarified.
