Sweden charges man with planning Daesh terror attack on school

STOCKHOLM: A 19-year-old man in Sweden has been charged with planning a knife attack on a high school in the name of the Daesh militant group, prosecutors said Friday.

The young man planned to wound or kill people at a high school in the southern Swedish town of Halmstad between March 1 and April 13, the prosecution service said in a statement.

He has been charged with “belonging to a terrorist organization” and “public incitement to terrorism.”

The man was arrested in April, the statement added. It did not identify him.

Deputy chief prosecutor Henrik Olin said in the statement that he could prove “the perpetrator had a direct terrorist intent.”