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A 12-year old German-Iraqi boy tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas market in the western town of Ludwigshafen last month and planted another explosive device near the town hall a couple of days later, German prosecutors said on Friday. Focus magazine cited security and judicial sources as saying the boy was "strongly radicalised" and apparently instructed by an unknown member of the militant group Islamic State. A spokesman at the Federal Public Prosecutor Office in Karlsruhe confirmed that officials were investigating the case but declined to comment on any possible Islamic State link. Nobody was hurt in either of the incidents. The boy, born in Ludwigshafen in 2004, is below the age of criminal responsibility, meaning no formal proceedings were launched against him, Public Prosecutor Hubert Stroeber said. The youth welfare office is taking care of the boy and the Federal Public Prosecutor Office is in charge of investigating whether there are any suspects linked to him, Stroeber added. He said the boy left a backpack containing a self-made nail bomb at the Christmas market on Nov. 26, but the device did not go off because the detonator apparently failed He then planted another explosive device near the town hall of Ludwigshafen on Dec. 5 but an "informant" called the police and specialists defused it, he said. The Focus magazine report said evidence pointed to the child having thought about travelling to Syria last summer to join militants.
originally posted by: tigertatzen
Hmm...it wasn't the same Christmas market that the make-believe truck went through was it?
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
What cause do they actually have in Germany to be doing that? Is Germany bombing their homelands? Did Germany welcome them with open arms? Is Germany giving them free welfare? Are they even making any demands on Germany, or just going around causing havoc???
originally posted by: Aeshma
a reply to: FlyingFox
Tag him.. publicly announce they are tagged sub dermal... somewhere it aould be very hard to remove... then deport the individul to syria, or iraq, ban them from all travel permanently... wait for them to crawl back to the rats nest and they will provide intel for us and easier to keep an eye on if they ever attempted to return...
originally posted by: daaskapital
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
What cause do they actually have in Germany to be doing that? Is Germany bombing their homelands? Did Germany welcome them with open arms? Is Germany giving them free welfare? Are they even making any demands on Germany, or just going around causing havoc???
You're conflating refugees with terrorists.
The average refugee is seeking safety from war-torn countries such as Syria. The terrorists who have infiltrated refugee migrations want to stir up trouble between Muslims and Westerners, so as to encourage splits in social unity and thus drive disenfranchised Muslims towards their cause. When people react in a knee-jerk way and blame the average Muslim or refugee for terrorist attacks, they are fulfilling a part of the plan set by terrorist organisations.