(European Conservative) A 15-year-old boy accused of planning a terrorist attack on Vienna’s Westbahnhof station is due to appear before the Vienna Regional Court on Monday under tight security. The teenager, described as a suspected supporter of the Islamic State (IS), has been held in pre-trial detention since February.
According to prosecutors, the student had been studying IS ideology intensively since August 2024, acquiring and distributing propaganda material and seeking out bomb-making tutorials via Telegram channels.
The indictment alleges that the boy communicated multiple times with an IS operative, to whom he pledged allegiance between 5 and 7 February.
