17-year-old boy decided on 5 mosques across Singapore for his post-Friday prayer attacks, says ISD
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\nA Singaporean teenager allegedly planning to kill dozens of Muslims outside several mosques has been detained, the city-state\u2019s Internal Security Department said on Wednesday.
\nThe 17-year-old boy was detained in March, the ISD said in a statement, adding that he had regarded white supremacist Brenton Tarrant \u2014 who in 2019 had killed worshippers at mosques in New Zealand \u2014 as a \u201chero\u201d.
\nISD also said he had \u201cidentified as an \u2018East Asian Supremacist\u2019\u201d, and had decided on five mosques across Singapore for his post-Friday prayer attacks.
\n\u201cThis boy wanted to kill at least 100 Muslims, so that he can kill more Muslims than Tarrant had killed. He also wanted to live-stream his attacks,\u201d Home Minister K Shanmugam told reporters.
\n\u201cWhen he was arrested… he had already made a number of attempts to get a gun. He told ISD quite openly if he had gotten a gun, he would have carried out his attacks.\u201d
\nThe teen had been in online contact with 18-year-old Nick Lee, who was detained in December for having similar plans.
\nThe multicultural country has seen several cases in recent years where young Singaporeans have been detained for allegedly making attack plans following exposure to extremist content online.
\nIn 2024, authorities arrested a teenage boy who was allegedly planning a Daesh group-inspired stabbing attack at a busy suburb.
\nIn the same statement Wednesday, the ISD also said a 15-year-old girl was placed under a restriction order in February, forbidding her from travelling nor having access to the internet without the approval of the ISD director.
\nIt alleged that between July 2023 and December 2024, the girl was in at least eight short-term romantic online relationships with overseas-based Daesh group supporters.
\n\u201cShe went to pledge allegiance to an Daesh chatbot,\u201d said Shanmugam. \u201cShe wanted to fight and die for Daesh, she looked up flights to go to Syria, she thought of how she was going to save money to plan for her travels.\u201d
\nHe added that the trend of rising radicalism and extremism of young people via the internet was \u201cconcerning\u201d.
\nISD said \u201cself-radicalisation can happen very quickly\u201d.
\n\u201cIn the case of the 15-year-old, it only took weeks,\u201d it said, appealing for the public to \u201cbe vigilant to signs\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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