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15-Year-Old Boy Jailed For 4 Years Over German Christmas Market Attack Plot
A German court on Friday sentenced a 15-year-old boy to four years in jail for planning an Islamist attack on a Christmas market in the western city of Leverkusen.
The teenager wanted to rent a truck and "kill as many people as possible" by ramming it into the traditional market, the court in Cologne said in a statement.
The boy had started to become "radicalised" in autumn 2023, the court said.
The evidence against him included a video in a chat group announcing his plans for an attack on "infidels" with a recognisable Islamist symbol in the background.
The boy had planned the attack along with another teenager who was supposed to film it and share the video, the court said.
The 16-year-old from Brandenburg, the state that surrounds Berlin, will stand trial in a different court from July....