(Reuters) Swedish prosecutors on Thursday charged a Syrian-Swedish dual national captured in an undercover sting operation with planning a suicide bomb attack on a crowded Stockholm culture festival, on behalf of the Islamic State militant group.
The prosecutor said the 18-year-old, who was arrested in February, had been planning to blow himself up at the Stockholm Culture Festival which drew 2 million visitors over the span of five days in August.
Described as a “self-radicalised” young man who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, he was charged with planning a terrorist crime and being a member of a terrorist organisation. The man denies the charges and was not named by the prosecutor.
