[ April 23, 2024 ]
Sief Allah H. holds a folder in front of his face at the start of his trial at a court in Duesseldorf, western Germany.
A migrant, Sief Allah, planned to detonate a toxic explosive in a large crowd, “to kill and wound the largest possible number of people” in the cause of Islam.
German court sentences Tunisian for ricin bomb plot
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BERLIN – 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 sympathizer 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 defense lawyers of attempting to spin out the case with a 140-page statement on Thursday.
Her trial will resume on April 1.
The couple “wanted to create a climate of fear and uncertainty among the German population,” Judge Jan van Lessen was quoted by DPA as saying on Thursday.
He added that they had produced enough ricin to potentially kill up to 13,500 people.
The couple have been on trial since June last year following their arrest in 2018 by an anti-terrorist squad that found 84 milligrams of the toxin in their Cologne apartment.
The arrests likely prevented what would have been Germany’s first biological attack, said Holger Muench, head of the BKA Federal Criminal Police Office, at the time.
Federal prosecutors said the couple had “for a long time identified with the aims and values of the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State.”
They decided in 2017 to detonate an explosive in a large crowd, “to kill and wound the largest possible number of people,” prosecutors said ahead of the trial.
Produced by processing castor beans, ricin is lethal in minute doses if swallowed, inhaled or injected and 6,000 times more potent than cyanide, with no known antidote.
The pair had allegedly researched various forms of explosives before deciding on the deadly poison.
They ordered 3,300 castor beans over the internet and successfully made a small amount of ricin.
They also bought a hamster to test the potency of the poison.
The couple were caught after a tip-off from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which had noticed the large online purchase of castor seeds, according to German media reports.
Sief Allah H. admitted to building the bomb but denied that he had planned an attack on German soil.
His defense lawyers had asked for a sentence of eight years.
“He is certainly guilty, we do not deny that,” they reportedly said.
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16 Comments
4 years ago
Prison isn’t the answer, firing squads are…
4 years ago
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MAS
real proud mozzies aren’t they?! scum covers its face…if they rob bank they wear fake big nose on top of big nose. lol
4 years ago
Only 10 years? This Muzziescum needs to be taken out of commission permanently.
4 years ago
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VMS
Really, this muslum wanted to kill as many kufar as he possibly could, if any idiot in Germany thinks ten years are going to reform him they’re delusional.
4 years ago
Stuff him in a pig carcass, then throw him in a river or lake.
4 years ago
More of Angela Merkel’s child refugees enriching the West. But if you dare saying anything negative, you’ll get the Stasi arresting you.
Germans for some reason love to elect fascist dictators to rule over and oppress them. They appear to have a gene to want enslavement and self-destruction.
And don’t forget, Muslims planning terrorist attacks to kill large numbers of non-Muslims has nothing to do with Islam, you racist, greasy Islamophobic bigots.
4 years ago
More of Angela Merkel’s child refugees enriching the West. But if you dare saying anything negative, you’ll get the Stasi arresting you.
Germans for some reason love to elect fascist dictators to rule over and oppress them. They appear to have a gene to want enslavement and self-destruction.
And don’t forget, Muslims planning terrorist attacks to kill large numbers of non-Muslims has nothing to do with Islam, you racist, greasy Islamophobic bigots.
4 years ago
And Merkel STILL wants more “migrants” to flood into Germany…..
4 years ago
no 10 Years, but 100 Years
4 years ago
“Tipped off by the CIA” just goes to show how incompetent the German authorities are
4 years ago
10 years is a joke. Execute him in a public square! Show them that other nations can be barbaric as Muslims
4 years ago
Ten years in prison is a ridiculously lenient sentence.
Why was it so??
Seif Allah H. should have been sentenced to death, executed. and buried in pig excrement (a detail that should be highly publicized) as a warning to other Muslim terrorists.
4 years ago
He certainly is guilty – you acknowledge that and in 10 likely less for ” good behaviour ” he’ll be out more committed than ever to murder as many Germans as possible – Settle it now with a .45 rd – problem solved..
