Twelve-year-old wanted to blow up
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Twelve-year-old wanted to blow up Flemish regional parliament in Brussels

A boy in the Netherlands has been convicted of inciting acts of terrorism, with the aim of "replacing democracy with an ethnically white state."

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The right-wing extremist boy was only twelve years old when he initiated plans via a group on the Telegram app two years ago to, among other things, detonate a bomb in the Flemish regional parliament in Brussels, reports the television channel VRT.

There were also plans to attack a military air base in Arnhem, Netherlands, with the stated goal of forcing a “race war.”

The boy has now been sentenced by a court in Leeuwarden to three months' conditional juvenile detention and must also undergo treatment at a national support center against radicalization.

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AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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