Would build a bomb – now prosecuted 20-year-old – Aftonbladet

Here trapped the 20-year-old teacher-student image when he buys a pressure cooker at Ikea.

Now prosecuted him of conspiring to commit a terrorist offense.

his intent is suspected to have been manufacturing a suicide and become a martyr.

the bomb he would blow up in Sweden – but where and when do not know SAPO.

the 20-year-old teacher-student arrested Feb. 11 on suspicion of in January have bought items – including acetone, a pressure cooker, round balls of steel – with the intention to create a bomb of the same type used in the terrorist attack in Boston Marathon, 2013.

the suicide

Now prosecuted him of conspiring to commit a terrorist offense.

– My opinion is that he acquired, stored and compiled liquids and objects with intent to make a suicide. The criminal act prepared has seriously been hurt Sweden, said prosecutor Ewamari Häggkvist at the National Unit for safety.

The lawsuit states that “the purpose of the act was to seriously intimidate a population or a population group and to seriously destabilize or destroy the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures in Sweden. “

– But we have no idea of ​​where and when he planned to strike. It was made still ingredients for the bomb, says Ewamari Häggkvist.

tried to connect to IS

The evidence includes, besides the physical seizure that would be used to make the bomb, even a large number of electronic proof.

the 20-year-old has, among other things downloaded the document with instructions on how to make bombs and how to go about becoming a martyr.

the prosecution also claims that 20- year-old twice tried to join the terrorist organization iS but been turned away from Turkey. According to the prosecutor has 20-year-old also had plans to travel on to Syria to join the IS.

The investigation also includes images of 20-year-old when he was buying more components of the bomb.

on the morning of January 12, he got stuck on the surveillance pictures of Ikea in Barkaby when he bought a pressure cooker.

the next day bought a Christmas tree lighting and batteries Kjell and Company and another two days later got caught he was captured surveillance camera on Jula in Barkaby when he bought three packs of steel balls.

the man’s previous criminal record but was picked in late January in for questioning by the Security Service on suspicion of conspiracy to devastation endangering the public.

– Relatives had been worried about him for a long time. When he went to Turkey as reported he disappeared to the police and then went a copy to the Security Service that was connected, says Häggkvist.

“Quiet and withdrawn”

The 20-year-old the man is resident in a municipality just north of Stockholm and has started a teacher training.

the picture that emerged of him from old friends is not consistent with a radicalized man who planned a terrorist act.

– I do not know him really, he was very quiet and withdrawn, says a former classmate who wishes to remain anonymous.

– he’s the world’s nicest guy, almost a little too nice so that he did not dare say no to someone. A skinny guy who was always dressed in a shirt and tie, said another classmate.

But when his trial begins, others who know him, alarmed by his behavior that testify:

• How he felt bad and said he wanted to blow himself and those who are against iS.

• How he wanted to die in the name of God.

• How he wanted to go to Syria to protect women and children against “the infidels” – and if he did not go he was prepared to “do something” in Sweden.

the 20-year-old lawyer Peter Jansson says his client denies crime, but would not tell me which statement the accused gave to the objects found with him.