VIENNA: Austria has charged a 14-year old boy with terror offences after he researched how to build a bomb online and made contact with militants supporting Islamic State fighters in Syria, prosecutors said on Tuesday (Mar 31).
The boy from a Turkish family had been detained for a second time in January on suspicion of terrorism-related activity. The boy faces up to five years in jail if convicted of supporting a terrorist organisation and planning an attack.
Authorities base their charges on data found on the boy’s Playstation games console, including bomb-building plans downloaded from the internet, said a spokeswoman for prosecutors in Sankt Poelten, the capital of Lower Austria province…….
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