Prosecutors say two men accused of planning an attack in Sweden for an affiliate of the Islamic State group in response to the burning of the Quran have been charged in Germany. The Afghan citizens were charged with conspiring to commit a crime and violating export laws, and one was charged with membership in a terrorist organization.
have been charged in Germany, where they were arrested earlier this year, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The two Afghan citizens, identified only as Ibrahim M.G. and Ramin N. in line with German privacy rules, were charged with conspiring to commit a crime and violating export laws. Ibrahim M.G. was charged with membership in a terrorist organization and Ramin N. with supporting one.on March 19 near Gera in eastern Germany. Federal prosecutors said they filed the indictment on Aug. 12 to the state court in Jena, which will decide whether and when the case goes to trial.
Ibrahim M.G. allegedly was tasked by the IS affiliate in summer last year with carrying out an attack in Europe as a reaction to Quran burnings in Sweden and elsewhere. The two suspects planned to kill police officers and other people near the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm using firearms and made “concrete preparations” in close consultation with members of the group, prosecutors said in a statement.
The two men conducted online research on the location and tried repeatedly but unsuccessfully to procure weapons, prosecutors said.
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