Berlin: Three teenage boys accused of a jihadist bomb attack on a Sikh wedding( Anand Karaj) that left a Sikh priest badly wounded went on trial in Germany on Wednesday.
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All the three accused were around 16 when they committed the crime, as per media reports they allegedly set off a home-made bomb in April outside a prayer hall where a Sikh wedding was taking place, also leaving two others with lesser injuries.The youths, who were born in Germany, had met on social media after being radicalised by ultra-extreme Salafists.
Prosecutors charge they had sought to kill “non-believers” with a device they had built from a fire extinguisher shell and chemicals ordered from online shopping site Amazon.