12-year-old Dutch boy planned terrorist attack on the Flemish Parliament – A court in the Netherlands has convicted a Dutch teenager of plotting terrorist attacks on the Flemish Parliament in Brussels and a military airbase near the Dutch city of Arnhem in 2024.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2026/04/01/12-year-old-dutch-boy-planned-terrorist-attack-on-the-flemish-pa/
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> The boy, from the Dutch province of Friesland, ran a chat group on the communications app Telegram, through which he called on others to carry out terrorist attacks.
> The boy offered one of the members of the group money to carry out a bomb attack on the Flemish Parliament in Brussels. No attack was carried out as the person inquestion backed out. There were also plans for an attack on the military airbase in the eastern Dutch city of Arnhem.
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> The court in Leeuwarden (Friesland) said that the boy has far-right sympathies and wished to create chaos in order to start “a race war and replace democracy with a white ethno-state”. It is not clear why he had planned an attack in Belgium.
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> The boy was given a 3-month suspended youth detention sentence with a probation period of 2 years. He will also have to receive treatment from the Dutch body that deals with people that become radicalised.
Jucidial Ruling here
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI%3ANL%3ARBNNE%3A2026%3A1023
That’s one ehm… Ambitious twelve year old
We really need to get a handle on the culture of always seeking maximum blame for everything rather than looking at solutions or prevention
Because this kid was apparently convinced that violence and hate would improve things and that is… Not the way
But at that age these things don’t happen in a vacuum
ALWAYS go after the parents. I don’t understand why everyone is just pretending parenting doesn’t play a role when news like this come out, or when people talk about implementing spyware and age verification in social media. At this point I am convinced that all politicians are just dogshit parents who shouldn’t be raising children and are projecting onto others.
Where are the parents? Unless they share the same feelings and ideas and approve those plans?
Society has failed.
That sounds eerily similar to the “last wave of defense” in Germany, another far-right chat group by very young teens wanting (and succeeding) to carry out terrorist attacks:
[https://de-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Letzte_Verteidigungswelle?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en](https://de-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Letzte_Verteidigungswelle?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en)
Doesn’t seem connected time-wise but it’s kind of an uncomfortable pattern.
The Dutch secret service sees these kinds of groups as likely to plan terrorist attacks as Muslims fundamentalists. So when you hear you racist uncle ranting again about immigrants…
Okay sure a 12 year old has the resources to pay people to commit crimes? The kid was a patsy, doing the bidding of an adult, probably parent. The kid got a wrist slap, this is why kids are groomed to be patsies
The article calls him a teenager, yet says he’s 12?
I guess this boy wants to destabilize Flemish Belgium and form Greater Netherlands. He must be playing Paradox games a lot.
I hope the dutch and belgian authorities keep an eye not only on the family but also the telegram groups he was in and its members the threat could still be very much real as i doubt that kid was alone in the planning.
Everything about this is weird. Why would he even know Flanders has its own parliament? There’s a few other parliaments in the same city that are just a tad more obvious.
I’m going to assume Russian asset.
Very ambitious
Was he doing the ruin your life challenge that’s probably real on tiktok and other sewer-like platforms?
This has to be one of the worst written articles I have ever read. The article jumps between Telegram, Brussels and Arnhem plots.
“Far-right sympathies”? How did the court reach that conclusion? The article just mentions a Telegram chat without any citations and quotes whatsoever. Is this a news article or a fucking gossip column? Was this article even written by a human being?
Clearly it’s the trans people grooming kids to do their bidding, not the far right! /s
What is going on with the children
Bro how tf does a 12 yo plan a terrorist attack? I was playing yu gi oh at his age
WTF…
Throw him in jail. No excuses.
WTF, Li’l Ultimate Terrorist! (超小学生級の「テロリスト」 lit. Super Elementary School Level Terrorist)
He’s far right, but surely some Americans will join the conversation to tell us we need to be afraid of immigrants and the “far-left”.
Twelve isn’t a teenager