Germany accuses followers of ISIS of planning an attack on Sweden.
Two men are accused by German federal prosecutors of plotting a shooting near the Swedish parliament. One is said to be a member of the self-styled “Islamic State” group and the other a supporter of it.The public prosecutor claims that the pair is an Islamic State supporter.CrimeGermany
Federal prosecutors in Germany allege that two men were planning a shooting near the Swedish parliament. One is said to be a member of the self-styled “Islamic State” group and the other a supporter of it.
The attackers allegedly planned to hit central Stockholm’s government district, somewhere near the parliament buildingImage: Blondet Eliot/ABACA/picture allianc
German federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men with plotting a shooting near Sweden’s parliament in central Stockholm.
They said the plot was meant to be a reaction to cases of Koran burnings in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries last year that made international headlines.
Prosecutors allege that one of the men is a member of the so-called “Islamic State,” or IS, extremist group, and that the other is a supporter of it, with both aligned to the group since “2023 at the latest.”
They accuse the men, who have Afghan citizenship, of donating money via intermediaries to a branch of the IS group, based primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is known as the Islamic State Khorasan Province and often referred to as ISKP or ISIS-K.
According to German prosecutors, in the summer of 2023, ISIS-K allegedly ordered the main suspect “to carry out an attack in Europe as a reaction to the Koran burnings taking place in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries” at the time.
