Germany: Iraqi terror suspect arrested
Hanover - The Lower Saxony police have arrested a 20-year-old Iraqi in Helmstedt in Lower Saxony. Investigators are currently assuming that the migrant living in Saxony-Anhalt was planning a terrorist attack on the Christmas market in Hanover. “We cannot rule this out at the moment,” a spokesman for the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office told the dpa on Friday.
According to information from security circles, the Iraqi is said to have planned to attack visitors to the Christmas market with a knife. The Federal Prosecutor's Office is currently investigating charges of supporting a terrorist organization abroad. The suspect has only been in Germany since last year.
Iraqi announced terrorist attacks
“He has announced that he obviously wants to carry out attacks in conjunction with major events during the Christmas season, and that is why we have taken him into preventive custody,” the Lower Saxony Interior Minister, Daniela Behrens, said on NRD on Thursday. WDR and NDR became aware of the Iraqi during research.
With a view to the Gaza war, Behrens assured that the police at Christmas markets were “very clear and robust”. “We still have Islamists,” she emphasized.
Two young people were recently arrested in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg who are also said to have planned an attack on a Christmas market . Both migrants are currently in custody. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office says they wanted to kill people at a Christmas market in Leverkusen with an explosion.
“He has announced that he obviously wants to carry out attacks in conjunction with major events during the Christmas season, and that is why we have taken him into preventive custody,” the Lower Saxony Interior Minister, Daniela Behrens, said on NRD on Thursday. WDR and NDR became aware of the Iraqi during research.
With a view to the Gaza war, Behrens assured that the police at Christmas markets were “very clear and robust”. “We still have Islamists,” she emphasized.
Two young people were recently arrested in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg who are also said to have planned an attack on a Christmas market . Both migrants are currently in custody. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office says they wanted to kill people at a Christmas market in Leverkusen with an explosion.
Source: Junge Freiheit
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