BERLIN: German federal prosecutors said Monday they had brought charges against a 16-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed a policeman in February in an operation for the Islamic State jihadist group. The German-Moroccan teenager, identified only as Safia S., was charged on August 12 with attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and support for a foreign terrorist organization, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. A second suspect, named as 19-year-old German-Syrian national Mohamad Hasan K., was charged on suspicion of failing to report Safia S.’s planned attack. The girl, then 15, stabbed the federal officer during a routine check at Hanover train station in the north of the country, before being overpowered by another police officer. She told Mohamad K., who was already aware of her trip to Istanbul, about her plans but he did not go to police, prosecutors said.

Source: Manila Times August 29, 2016 12:00 UTC