Muslim teens arrested for blast at Sikh wedding in Germany

This was in the Sikh press and the German press first, as one would expect. Now getting into English language publications. This is the Express Tribune.

BERLIN: German police on Thursday arrested two teenagers with extremist backgrounds over an explosion that wounded three people at a Sikh temple, labelling it a “terrorist attack”.

The blast that hit an Indian wedding party at the entrance to the temple in the western city of Essen last Saturday injured three men, one of them seriously.

Police arrested two 16-year-olds with known links to regional extremists over the attack, said city police chief Frank Richter. “We have to presume it was a terrorist act — religiously motivated terror by the extremist scene,” Richter said in a statement, without linking the youths to a particular militant group. But I have never heard of Methodists being antagonistic and violent towards Sikhs – there is only one such religion. “Our work does not end with the arrest of the two suspects. There are numerous leads that need to be evaluated.”

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He also confirmed at the press conference that two 16-year-old Salafi Muslim youths have partially confessed to the crime.

News of the attack has stirred ethnic tension in the notably ‘multicultural’ area. In response, the temple was place under police guard and the Indian consul-general based in Frankfurt made a special trip to Essen to meet with city authorities, and to try and calm the situation.

The bomb exploded at a temple belonging to the Sikh Gurdwara Nanaksar congregation on Saturday at around 7 pm, wounding three people. One victim, who was seriously hurt, was a 60-year-old Sikh priest.

A wedding has occurred earlier in the day, attracting around 200 people including children. In an audio recording of the attack, obtained by the Sikh Channel, the explosion is heard disrupting a musical performance.

The young men thought to be responsible were “already known to the police for more” officers said. They identified the bombers after multiple tip offs in response to CCTV images that were released, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) reports.

The local Mayor, Mr. Thomas, said he was stunned and could not understand how two young Muslims had become “radicalised”. He said that, “it worried me that there should be two 16-year-old who had come to such a wrong path”, before asking: How is this radicalisation occurs?”