Charges are about to be brought against an 18-year-old for preparation for terrorist offences in central Stockholm.
– We believe that the purpose of the preparations has been to instill serious fear in the population in the name of the Islamic State. The criminal act could have seriously harmed Sweden, says Deputy Chief Prosecutor Henrik Olin, in a press release.
Preparation for terrorist crimes is said to have taken place from August 2024 to February 2025. The prosecutors also intend to charge the 18-year-old together with a 17-year-old with an attempted murder in Germany in August 2024.
The 18-year-old is also suspected of preparing for violations of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods, Serious Crime and Terrorism, Serious Crime Training. Both he and the 17-year-old are also suspected of participation in a terrorist organization, a serious crime.
18-year-old is linked to IS – planned terrorist acts in central Stockholm
In February, an 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having prepared a terrorist crime in central Stockholm. The prosecutor believes that an act was averted and that the man is linked to the Islamic State.
The criminal act could have seriously harmed Sweden, says Deputy Chief Prosecutor Henrik Olin in a statement The prosecutors intend to bring charges against the 18-year-old on Thursday, announces the Public Prosecutor’s Office Preparation for terrorist crimes must have taken place from August 2024 to February 2025
We believe that the purpose of the preparations has been to instill serious fear in the population in the name of the Islamic State. The criminal act could have seriously harmed Sweden, says Deputy Chief Prosecutor Henrik Olin in a statement
Arrested in the Stockholm area.
The 18-year-old was arrested in February earlier this year in the Stockholm area.
According to Säpo, they had been working on the case for a long time and house searches were also carried out in connection with the operation.
It went smoothly, it is a case that we have been working on for a long timeNow we carried out an effort, said Säpo’s press manager Karl Melin after the arrest.
Even then, Säpo said that they had succeeded in averting a future act by intervening. Had we not had it, my absolute opinion would have been an obvious risk of an attack in Sweden, said Henrik Olin.
The suspected 18-year-old is a resident of Skåne and is a citizen of both Sweden and Syria. He has been convicted on previous occasions, among other things, in connection with the Easter riots in Skäggetorp in Linköping in 2022, he was convicted of throwing stones at and breaking police cars. The punishment was youth monitoring for six months and damages
Suspected of attempted murder in Eppstein
In addition, the 18-year-old, together with a 17-year-old, is expected to be charged with an attempted murder in Germany in August 2024. They were arrested in two separate Säpo operations in February of the same week, the 17-year-old was arrested in the Malmö area. The crime was allegedly committed in the small town of Eppstein in Hesse
The indictment is expected to arrive on Thursday, November 6.
