2016 Sweden terrorism plot

In February 2016 20-year old Aydin Sevigin was arrested, and in June 2016 convicted for plotting to carry out a bombing attack using a homemade pressure cooker bomb containing shrapnel. The plot was possibly ISIS-inspired.[1]

Sevigin grew up in the upscale Stockholm suburb of Danderyd.[2]

Surveillance footage from IKEA showed him purchasing a pressure cooker.[2] "Six bottles of acetone, a mobile phone, duct tape and bullets" were discovered in a police raid on his property.[1]

In June 2015, a member of Sevigin's family called police to say that he had gone missing.[2][1] Shortly thereafter Sevigin traveled to Turkey twice, both times he was deported by Turkish authorities on suspicion of intending to join ISIS in Syria.[2][1] He is known to have downloaded ISIS propaganda and bomb-making instructions.[1]

He was sentenced to 5 years in prison.[2]

See also

References
  1. Moore, Jack (2 June 2016). "Sweden Convicts Man of Plotting ISIS-Inspired Suicide Bomb Attack". Newsweek. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. "Teaching student jailed over Sweden terror plot". The Local. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
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