Twelve kilos of powder and chemicals were found hidden in the home of this Islamic State sympathizer in February 2021. On Tuesday, the Danish justice sentenced Ali Al Masry to sixteen years in prison for "attempted terrorist act", in planning a bomb attack.
This is the heaviest sentence handed down in the Scandinavian country in a case under anti-terrorism legislation.
This 35-year-old man of Syrian origin was also found guilty by the court in Holbaek, in the suburbs of Copenhagen, of financing and promoting "terrorist activities" with jihadist motivation.
His wife and brother also sentenced
It was in this city that he was arrested in February 2021 during a joint dragnet between Denmark and Germany, as well as his wife and her brother, a former IS fighter in Iraq and Syria.
"The trial did not determine where a terrorist attack might have taken place, but we are confident that with the arrests made, we prevented an attack from being carried out," prosecutors John Catre Nielsen and Kirsten said. Jensen in a statement.
The accused pleaded not guilty, saying that the 12 kg of powder and chemicals found hidden in his home were to be used to create fireworks.
In detention since his arrest, he must be expelled when he leaves prison.
His wife, 31, and his 37-year-old brother were acquitted of aiding and abetting charges but found guilty of “providing financial support (…) to a person linked to the Islamic State”.
They are sentenced respectively to nine and six months of imprisonment, followed by expulsion for the brother.
According to Danish media, the two men are from Syria, while the woman is of Iraqi origin, but has Danish nationality.
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