Source: Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — A German court convicted three 17-year-olds on Tuesday of participating last year in a bomb attack on a Sikh temple that was motivated by hatred of other religions. They were given prison sentences ranging between six and seven years.
The boys had been radicalized for some time before the April 16 attack in the western city of Essen and had been in contact with ultraconservative Muslims known as Salafists, the Essen state court said.
But the three-month trial turned up no evidence that they had any immediate contact with the Islamic State group, the court said in a statement.
Two of the defendants, identified only as T. and B., were convicted of attempted murder and bodily harm. The court found that they placed a home-made bomb — a fire extinguisher filled with explosives — outside an entrance the temple.
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