German police charge girl, 16, with terror offences after officer is stabbed

A teenage girl has been charged with attempted murder and supporting a terrorist organisation by German federal prosecutors.

German police charge girl, 16, with terror offences after officer is stabbed

A teenage girl has been charged with attempted murder and supporting a terrorist organisation by German federal prosecutors.

Officials claim the 16-year-old German-Moroccan citizen was acting on behalf of the Islamic State group when she seriously wounded a policeman with a kitchen knife at Hanover's central railway station on February 26.

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