In the district court, the 19-year-old was sentenced to seven years and ten months in prison for, among other things, preparation for a terrorist crime and for aggravated participation in a terrorist organization. He has admitted to those crimes.
The 19-year-old was also convicted, along with a now 18-year-old, of preparing to murder a man in the small German town of Eppstein in August 2024.
The Svea Court of Appeal takes a harsher view of the total penalty and sentences the 19-year-old to nine years and ten months in prison. The sentence for the younger accomplice is also increased and he is sentenced to closed youth care for one year and eight months.
Both have denied the murder plot in Germany and appealed that verdict. The prosecutor also appealed, as he wanted to see tougher sentences for both perpetrators and for the act in Germany to be classified as attempted murder.
The Court of Appeal does not change the classification of the crime but views it more seriously.
"That crime is significantly more serious than what the district court considered, for example because the defendants went to Germany to commit a murder, were far along in their criminal plan and they themselves believed it was carried out on the orders of IS," says Court of Appeal Councilor Sven Jönson in a press release.
