- The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Court of Justice of the European Union is competent to hear and determine cases in which the Court of Justice of the European Union has failed to act.
Just prior to the deadline, no appeal has been filed against the ruling of the Neuruppin Regional Court against a 17-year-old Chechen. This was confirmed by a spokesperson for the court. The teenager was sentenced to a juvenile detention of four years last Friday for plotting a terrorist attack on a Christmas market in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The verdict was handed down for conspiracy to commit murder and for "publicly using the insignia of a banned organization". Both the convicted person and the prosecution have one week to appeal the ruling.
During the non-public main hearing, the charges of the Public Prosecutor's Office were largely confirmed, according to court statements. It is said that the accused Chechen had become increasingly radicalized and, together with a 15-year-old accomplice who was also convicted, had planned to obtain a truck and use it to kill as many people as possible at the Christmas market in Leverkusen-Opladen in the name of the Islamic State.
"The Christmas market visitors who would not have been immediately killed would have been stabbed to death with knives afterwards," the spokesperson said. The younger accomplice was also sentenced to a juvenile detention of four years by the Cologne Regional Court several weeks ago for the planned act.
The convicted teenager has the right to appeal the four-year jail sentence within the given week, challenging the judgments made against him for conspiracy and using banned organization insignia. The terror plot involved planning to use a truck to cause mass casualties at the Christmas market in Leverkusen-Opladen, demonstrating the serious nature of these judgments.
