two years Ago, the police discovered in Cologne, a bomb and poison laboratory: The first terrorist attack in Germany, with a biological agent was almost foiled. Now a seven times the mother has been condemned as a bomb Builder.

Düsseldorf (dpa) - For the planned terrorist attack with the highly toxic Ricin, a Cologne Islamistin has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

to have The düsseldorf higher regional court converted to Islam 44-year-old German on Friday is guilty of the bomb attack with a biological agent in Germany with her husband planned and prepared language.

sentenced her husband was by the court of ten years imprisonment had been. Seven times the mother had made the radical Islamic ideology of the terrorist organization Islamic state of their own. The Federal Prosecutor had requested nine years in prison for the woman, the defender of a suspended sentence.

In an apartment of the infamous Cologne high-rise estate Chorweiler were advanced in the months-long preparations. The Tunisians Sief Allah h and his German wife Yasmin had made the super toxin Ricin, a Hamster, tried and a test explosion triggered. In addition, they had 250 steel balls and parts for the construction of a remote detonator worried. An Explosion of the bomb would have been the first terrorist attack with a biological agent in Germany.

The judge left no doubt as to the guilt of the seven-fold mother. The had claimed, from the bomb-making, but to have nothing of a plot known. Her husband had just want to acquire skills for his time in the IS.

But the overall look of the circumstantial evidence leave no doubt that the 44-Year-old has been a radical and zealous accomplice, which have seen the Killing of adherents of other faiths as a legitimate means, the court said.

The dangerous Goings-on in the 15-storey high-rise building was left to the German authorities for months is hidden, although it is found in the immediate vicinity of the Headquarters of the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution instead. A foreign intelligence service drew because of the Online purchases of large quantities of castor seeds of suspicion and gave a tip.

in mid-June of 2018, the investigators resorted to. The chief of the Federal criminal police office, Holger Muench, language in the light of the findings of a planned attack "a new Dimension". In ABC-protective suits, investigators had to secure the evidence.

First of all, they held the Tunisians to a sole perpetrator, but soon the investigation revealed how big the role was played by his wife. A few weeks later, she was arrested.

A report showed that, mathematically, might have been killed by the poison, lot of 13 500 people. In the planned distribution by a with steel balls studded cluster bomb, it would have been about 200 Dead.

For the explosives, the husband had traveled twice to Poland, to win him from illegal so-called "Poland firecrackers", lead by his wife. Together, the Couple have also bought a Hamster for a macabre animal trial with the Ricin, the rodents survived.

"you wanted to take the Jihad to the Western world, and in the German population, a climate of fear and uncertainty create," said the presiding judge, Jan van Lessen.

The cleaning woman, and nurse in an old people's home was targeted a Salafist as a husband sought. It was already converted in 2004 to Islam. Finally, you have lived a month 2000 euros of state subsidies. For religious reasons, your daughter may have to visit a Kindergarten, and the toy had been out of the apartment.

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