A 15-year-old boy was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison by the Vienna Regional Court for planning an attack on Vienna’s Westbahnhof (West Station).
Part of the sentence was suspended.
The verdict is not yet legally binding and can be appealed.
The young Islamic State supporter was remorseful and confessed during the trial.
“I always own up to my mistakes,’’ he said, according to the APA news agency.
The suspect intended to cause a bloodbath either with a pistol or a bomb, the prosecutor said.
He was arrested in February following tips from the German Federal Criminal Police Office.
The act was planned for this Vienna summer, according to the indictment.
The prosecutor described it as a “sad textbook example of online radicalisation.’’
The pupil listened to sermons by well-known Islamic State figures and consumed a large amount of propaganda material from the terrorist militia in a short time, which he also shared.
This was how the authorities became aware of him.
One plan involved stabbing a police officer, seizing his service pistol and shooting, the indictment said.
A motive was said to be experiences of bullying at school, where he was reportedly teased as the smallest in the class and locked in the toilet.
During a house search, instructions for preparing explosive material were also secured, which investigators believed was intended to serve as a detonator for a bomb.
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