Danish prosecutors on Wednesday appealed a six-year prison sentence for a teenage girl recently convicted of terrorism, arguing that an indefinite sentence of detention was necessary as she posed a danger.
The prosecutors said the teen, now aged 17, has been in custody since January 2016.
She was convicted earlier in May of planning to attack two schools, one of them a Jewish school in the capital, Copenhagen.
State prosecutor Lise-Lotte Nilas said in a statement that the appeal was supported by a psychiatric assessment stating that the teen was “so dangerous that she should be sentenced to an indefinite sentence of detention.”
The prosecution had sought that sentence but failed to sway the district court in Holbaek, north-west of the capital.
The majority noted she was only 15 at the time of the offence and had no prior record.
The teenager converted to Islam a few years ago and is believed to be the first female charged with terrorism in the Scandinavian country.
The girl’s attorney, Mette Grith Stage, said she and her client were considering a possible appeal to exonerate her.
During the trial they said the girl had been “bored” and had never planned to carry out the plans.
The district court cited that ingredients to make explosives and notes about possible targets had been found during a search of the girl’s home.
It cited also some messages she sent in late 2015 to a Twitter account she believed was used by a leader of the Islamic State extremist group. (dpa/NAN)
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