Bahrain Mirror: The Fourth High Criminal Court presided over by judge Ali Khalifa Al-Dhahrani and memberships of judges Ousama Al-Shathili and Wael Ibrahim and Ahmad Al-Suleiman as a secretariat sentenced 3 defendants to 3 years in prison over attempting to blast a gas cylinder in Diraz park and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The court said given that the suspects were under 18 when the incident took place, it dealt with them pursuant to article 70/71 of the penal code.

The Public Prosecution accused all the suspects of attempting to blast a gas cylinder in Diraz Park on 19/12/2016, however, they failed to achieve their aim because the policemen dealt with the fire and took off the gas cylinder. The prosecution also accused them of deliberately setting fire to the movables, mentioned in papers, that would put people's money and lives to danger and for a terrorist aim as well as acquiring Molotov, aiming at using them to endanger people's lives and money.

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