Before 17-year-old Muhammad Riyad went on an axe rampage on Monday, slashing at least 20 passengers on a German train, he sent a suicide video to ISIS.
In the clip, which the jihadist group’s news agency, Amaq, released on Tuesday, Riyad calls himself as a soldier of the caliphate while brandishing a knife.
“I want to perform a martyrdom operation in Germany,” he proclaims. “I will slaughter you with this blade and will cut your throats with an axe.”
“[ISIS sympathizers] will slaughter you in your own homes,” Riyad warns in the video. “And they will build new bases on your lands.”
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