(AFP) German prosecutors Wednesday charged two Syrian brothers with allegedly planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State jihadist group at a church in Sweden over Koran burning incidents in the country.
The two brothers, identified only as 29-year-old An. K. and 24-year-old Ah. K., had been arrested in April and are in pre-trial detention.
The older brother had since early 2023 been planning a “bomb attack, whose aim is to kill and injure many people,” said prosecutors.
On April 14, he allegedly told an unidentified member of the pro-IS Al-Saqri Foundation for Military Sciences that he planned to “carry out an attack on a church in Sweden where many people are assembled.”
