Girl in detention for stabbing cop

A GERMAN court sentenced a teenage girl to six years of juvenile detention yesterday for stabbing a police officer in an assault to support the Islamic State (IS) group.

The 16-year-old girl, a German-Moroccan national, was convicted of attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and support for a foreign terrorist organisation.

“With this crime she wanted to support the IS,” the court said, citing chats found on her cellphone.

Prosecutors initially believed that IS jihadists ordered the attack, but the group never claimed responsibility for it.

The hearings – in a court in Celle – were held behind closed doors because the girl is a minor.

One of the girl’s lawyers said she would appeal against the verdict to seek a lighter sentence.

Prosecutors had said that she sought the attention of police officers by following them at the main train station in the northern city of Hanover.

When the officers called her for an identity check, the girl, who was 15 at the time, stabbed one of them in the neck with a knife before being subdued.

Her co-defendant, Mohamad Hasan K, 20, had known about the planned attack and received a juvenile sentence of two years and six months.

Authorities believe the teenager was radicalised as a young girl. They found a message on her cellphone sent to Hasan K after the deadly Paris attacks in November 2015, exulting about the carnage.