Six Uzbeks have appeared in court in Sweden charged with plotting terror attacks in that Scandinavian country. The arrests were actually carried out last April. One of the suspects is believed to be linked to Rakhmat Akilov, the Uzbek who carried out a terrorist truck attack in Stockholm in April 2017.Translation of the below Fria Tider article by Fousesquawk.
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IS-Uzbeks accused of planned terrorist attack: Had hundreds of kilos of chemicals, bayonets, gas masks, combat harnesses
Published December 27, 2018 at 4.20 pm
DOMESTIC. Six Uzbeks with links to the Islamic state, IS, are being accused today of various terror-related crimes. At least one of the accused men is believed to have have had contact with Rakhmat Akilov. Three of them, according to the prosecution, planned a major terrorist attack on Swedish soil.
"If the terrorist crime had been completed, it could have seriously harmed Sweden," writes the Prosecutor's Office.
"If the terrorist crime had been completed, it could have seriously harmed Sweden," writes the Prosecutor's Office.
Six people are charged today at Solna District Court for preparation for terrorist offenses and violations of the Financing Act.
It concerns the people who were arrested in Strömsund and the Stockholm area earlier this year suspected of terrorist offenses.
The indictment for three of the accused refers to preparation for terrorist offenses consisting of suspicions that the three persons acquired and stored large quantities of chemicals and other equipment in order to, among other things, "kill and harm other people".
At house searches, around 800 kilos of very dangerous chemicals must have been seized. The police also found two combat harnesses, four communication radios with headsets and other accessories, a backpack, a gas mask, a gas mask bag, a gas mask filter, a holster, a pair of knee pads, two bayonets and two pairs of combat gloves.
"The objects in the previous paragraph have been particularly suitable for use as an aid to the crime. The purpose of the handling has been to deprive the other life through murder, gross abuse, gross damage and general hazardous destruction, adding other serious bodily injuries and causing danger to the lives or health of others and extensive destruction of the property of others ", it says in the lawsuit.
The chemicals found are believed to be 560 kilos of calcium hypochlorite, five liters of hydrogen peroxide, 100 kilos of potassium hydroxide and about 100 liters of 96 per cent sulfuric acid.
"If the terrorist crime had been completed, it could have seriously harmed Sweden," writes the Prosecutor's Office.
"The danger of the crime's completion has not been slight", it also says in the lawsuit.
All six are also prosecuted for violations of the Penal Code for financing particularly serious crime in some cases, the Financing Act.
"The charges in that part refer to suspicions that money sent from Sweden by the six accused persons to foreign recipients has been made available to the Islamic State's activities abroad", writes the Prosecutor's Office.
In addition, the indictment includes some relatively less serious crimes.
The suspected crimes have been committed in Strömsund, Jämtland, and various places in the Stockholm area. Five of the six people are detained.
All men are Uzbeks between 30 and 46 years old. Five are citizens of Uzbekistan and one in Kyrgyzstan, both Muslim countries.
The prosecutor, chief prosecutor Per Lindqvist, does not want to comment in the media before the trial.
All defendants deny all terrorist-related crimes.
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