German authorities say teen planned 'martyrdom operation'
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Prosecutors say a 15-year-old girl who stabbed a police officer is being investigated on suspicion of supporting a terrorist organization.
Safia S., whose surname wasn't given due to privacy rules, was already being held on suspicion of attempted murder and serious bodily harm for attacking the officer with a kitchen knife at Hannover train station on Feb. 26.
In a statement Friday, federal prosecutors said the German-Moroccan teenager "adopted the radical-jihadist ideology" of the Islamic State group from November 2015 onward and had been in online contact with members of the group in Syria.
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Prosecutors say she traveled to Istanbul hoping to reach Syria but was brought back by her mother, but while in Turkey members of IS convinced her to carry out a martyrdom operation in Germany.