Russian teenager handed jail sentence in Norway explosives case
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A Norwegian court sentenced a 17-year-old Russian citizen to nine months in jail on Monday for making a small explosive device and bringing it to the centre of Oslo in April.
Prosecutors had sought a two-year sentence for the teenager, saying he had frequented Islamist websites, become radicalised and possessed images of Islamic State members killing prisonners.
The teenager, who denied any wrongdoing, said he had been planning to detonate the device in a forest near his home.
The device was placed in central Oslo on a busy Saturday night in April, one day after a truck attack in Stockholm in neighbouring Sweden killed five people.
The Oslo police bomb squad said the device was about 30 cm (1 ft) across and appeared capable of causing only a small amount of damage.
