Jakarta mosque bomber was neo-Nazi-inspired ‘lone wolf’, police say
Indonesian police found as many as seven home-made explosive devices at the site of last week’s Jakarta mosque bombing that injured 96 people
The student suspected of detonating blasts that injured dozens of people at a mosque in Indonesia’s capital last week was motivated by vengeance and inspired by attacks carried out by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, police said on Tuesday.
The blasts, which hit a mosque at a school complex in the capital Jakarta’s Kelapa Gading area during Friday prayers, left 96 people injured.
Police said on Tuesday that seven home-made explosives had been found by Indonesian authorities in and around the mosque, some of them in soda cans.
Some bombs were triggered via remote control and some via fuse, and three did not explode, they said. Police said they also found a toy firearm at the scene with inscriptions, one of which read “vengeance”.
Last week, police said the suspect was a 17-year-old student at an adjacent school. Jakarta police chief Asep Edi Suheri did not name the suspect on Tuesday, referring to him as a “child facing the law”.
The alleged perpetrator was a lone wolf motivated by vengeance and loneliness, said Mayndra Eka Wardhana, an official at the Indonesian police anti-terror unit.