(AFP) A German court sentenced a 31-year-old Tunisian to 10 years in prison Thursday for planning a biological bomb attack with the deadly poison ricin.
Islamic State sympathiser Sief Allah H., 31, had ordered castor seeds, explosives and metal ball bearings on the internet in order to build the toxic bomb, a spokesman for the higher regional court in Duesseldorf said.
He was found guilty of producing a biological weapon and of planning a serious act of violent subversion.
His German wife Yasmin, 43, stands accused of helping him build the bomb but she is now being tried separately after the court accused her defence lawyers of attempting to spin out the case with a 140-page statement on Thursday.
