A Swedish court today convicted a man for plotting to carry out a bomb attack in Sweden in the name of Islamic State.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison followed by expulsion from the country.
The Solna District Court said evidence showed David Idrisson, a 46-year old Uzbek citizen who has lived in Sweden since 2008 and has permanent residency in the country, had obtained chemicals that could be used to make explosives, consulted instructions for bomb making and intended to carry out an attack.
Two other men were acquitted of those charges because of lack of strong enough evidence, the court said in a statement. But one of them, Bakhtiyor Umarov, a Uzbek citizen, was convicted with Idrisson of helping to finance Islamic State.
The three men were charged last year with acquiring and storing large quantities of chemicals and other equipment with intent to kill and harm other people in Sweden.
Sweden has been on high alert for such attacks since Rakhmat Akilov, an Uzbek asylum seeker, killed five people when he drove a stolen truck into shoppers on a pedestrian street in Stockholm in April 2017.
