Boys sentenced for attack Sikh temple

Three boys of seventeen years on Tuesday sentenced by the court in Essen in Germany to prison terms from six to seven years for a bomb attack on a Sikh temple in April last year.

The three had 'intensive contacts in the Salafist scene' and committed their attack from hatred of other religions, the judges noted. They were in the course of years gradually radicalized, but direct contacts were not proven with the terrorist group Islamic State.

Two boys who lit the self-assembled bomb in front of a door of the temple had seven years and six years and nine months in a juvenile detention imposed for attempted murder and inflicting serious injury. The third suspect who had participated in the preparation was six years.