Overview
- The 15-year-old Dutch defendant, sentenced Monday by the Landgericht Frankfurt to four years and three months, was convicted under youth law and remains in custody because the verdict is not yet final.
- Judges found him guilty of five counts of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm, plus particularly severe arson, causing an explosion, and carrying a prohibited item.
- The attack happened early on August 5, when he threw an incendiary device into Café Omonia and the owner kicked it into a corner, preventing injuries but leaving the business badly damaged and still closed.
- Prosecutors say he and a friend were recruited over Snapchat with a promise of €3,000 each, a pattern police call “violence-as-a-service” in which criminals pay youths to carry out attacks.
- A 20-year-old Dutch suspect accused of recruiting, driving, supplying materials, and instructing the teens was arrested in Amsterdam in early March, while the friend, now 18, is on trial in Wiesbaden over a separate device in Taunusstein.