In February 2020, the police raided a house in an affluent residential suburb in Luxembourg.
The authorities have received a tip from a foreign security service that a dangerous young man lives at the address. His father, who holds a leading position in a large Swedish company, and his wife also live here.
The tip turns out to be correct. In the house's garage and laundry room, an improvised chemistry lab is found, which the then 18-year-old man used as a bomb factory, local media have reported.
Here he has, among other things, produced deadly explosives such as nitroglycerin and TATP.
On his computer is a document, named “Fun time for Eurovision 2020”, with detailed plans to poison visitors to Eurovision in Rotterdam with cyanide or chlorine gas.
There are other terrorist plans as well – including a letter bomb with nails, addressed to a Swedish production company that had made a, in the man's opinion, too multicultural commercial for the airline SAS.
Nazi uniform
During the trial, which took place this summer, the prosecutor painted a picture of an intelligent and talented, but socially maladjusted and deeply radicalized young man.
He was born and raised in Luxembourg, and is said to have been radicalized during trips to Sweden and through contact with other right-wing extremists online.
He has been linked to several groups within so-called ecofascism and he is convicted of burning down a mink farm in Blekinge with a friend in 2019.
According to the prosecution, the man's family enabled his son's terrorist hobby. The father is said to have bought laboratory equipment worth tens of thousands of kronor for him and filmed his son, dressed in military uniform, performing chemical experiments in a field, reports the television channel RTL .
The son has long been fascinated by Nazism and the Holocaust. The Swedish investigation shows, among other things, that he had a tradition of dressing in a Nazi uniform on New Year's Eve.
Recognizes
During the trial, the Swede admitted to the terrorist plans and admitted that he probably would have killed people if the police had not stopped him.
Today he is 23 years old, lives in Sweden and studies chemistry at a university. He also runs a company "within the chemical and biotechnological industry".
He has now put Nazism behind him, he explained in court. But the prosecutor claims that the man's online activity indicates that as recently as a couple of years ago he was active in right-wing extremist circles, writes the newspaperLe Quotidien .
The prosecutor is calling for twelve years in prison, while the defense believes that the sentence cannot be longer than the nine months he has already served in custody.
The verdict will be handed down on Thursday.
