A 19-year-old Austrian Muslim teen of Albanian descent, has been imprisoned for nine years over his involvement in plans for two Islamic terrorist attacks in Germany. One of the suicide missions was to be carried out by a 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy who would set himself off at a Christmas market, and another was targeting a US air base.

Washington Post The Austrian Muslim of Albanian descent was accused of trying to incite an already radicalized 12-year-old to attack a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen in 2016, and plotting an attack on the United States’ Ramstein Air Base along with a 16-year-old girl.

The son of Albanian immigrants, he reportedly became radicalized in prison after being sentenced at 16 for robbery. Once released, he was reportedly further radicalized after attending several mosques.

He was arrested in Vienna in January 2017 following tips from German authorities. The teen was convicted Friday at the Vienna state court of two counts of attempted incitement to murder as a terrorist crime, as well as membership in an Islamic terrorist organization and other offenses, the Austrian Press Agency reported. He was given a nine-year sentence.

The defendant testified he became a supporter of the Islamic State group following a previous jail term for robbery. Defense lawyer Wolfgang Blaschitz asked for time to consider whether to appeal and argued that a nine-year sentence is “way too much.”

A key witness testifying at the trial was a German-Iraqi boy, now 14, who allegedly was incited to carry out the attack on the market in Ludwigshafen in November 2016, when he was just 12 years old.

Daily Sabah The young boy not only planned a suicide attack at a Christmas market in Germany two years ago, but he also considered killing a priest and butchering people in a hospital as well, he testified at a trial in Vienna on Thursday.

The boy disputed the prosecutor’s charge that the older teenager had had an influence on his terrorist plans. “I have been dabbling in bomb-building since I was 9 years old,” the younger of the two ISIS followers told the court.

Before choosing the Christmas market as the target for his home-built bomb, he had first planned to attack a church, he testified. “I thought I’d do it like my friends. They just took a priest and cut his head off. I thought I’d simply do the same,” the boy said.

In the end, however, the boy ended up only going to the Ludwigshafen market, where his bomb failed to detonate. He said he then planned to kill two people with an axe at a hospital and to set fire at the entrances to keep police from entering.