A jihadist accused of having prepared a ricin biological bomb attack, unprecedented in Germany, was sentenced to 8 years in prison on Friday in Düsseldorf. Her husband, a 31-year-old Tunisian, had already received 10 years of imprisonment on March 26 in the same case.
Yasmine H., a 44-year-old German woman, was found guilty by the Düsseldorf regional court of "preparing for and complicity in an act of serious violence which endangered the state". The husband, Sief Allah H., worked as a postman in Tunisia before joining Germany in 2016.
Hamster tests
Their arrest in June 2018 in Cologne had probably prevented what would have been the first biological attack in Germany, according to the German criminal police. The couple, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) but could not join their fighters in Syria, had decided in the fall of 2017 to carry out an Islamist attack in Germany.
A few days after the arrest of Sief Allah H., the investigators had found in his apartment 84.3 mg of ricin and some 3.300 ricin seeds used to make the poison. He had tested its effects on a hamster. This substance, 6,000 times more powerful than cyanide, is fatal if swallowed, inhaled or injected.
Metal balls, acetone…
The investigators also seized 250 metal balls, two bottles of acetone remover, cables connected to ampoules and 950 grams of a gray powder, a mixture of aluminum powder and pyrotechnic substances.
Their arrest had been made possible thanks to cooperation between national and international intelligence services, said the head of the internal intelligence services at the time, Hans-Georg Maassen.
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