IS-inspired teenager in Austria faces terrorism charges

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Vienna, March 31 (IANS) A 14-year-old boy, enamoured with the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation, has been charged in Austria with forming a terrorist group and downloading bomb-making plans with the intention to commit a terrorist offence, media reported on Monday. The teenager, referred to as "Merkan G", is accused by the St. Poelten city prosecutor's ****** of downloading plans on the internet for the construction of a bomb, which he then planned to detonate at either the Wien Westbahnhof railway station in Vienna, or along the tracks leading to it, Xinhua reported citing the Kronen Zeitung newspaper. According to prosecutor ****** spokesperson Michaela Obenaus, authorities found "countless" IS propaganda photos and videos of beheadings, torture, mass executions on the accused teenager's laptop. According to the teenager himself, he planned to travel to Syria to take part in IS activities, and is believed to have persuaded a 12-year-old boy to join him.

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