Germany has been targeted in recent years by several Islamist attacks, including a ram truck attack on a Christmas market in December 2016 that left 13 dead. This time, a 32-year-old Iranian, suspected of planning an “Islamist” attack using cyanide and ricin, was arrested in western Germany, police and the general prosecutor’s office announced on Sunday. Dusseldorf.
His accommodation in Castrop-Rauxel (North Rhine-Westphalia) was searched for possible “toxic substances” intended to commit an attack, according to a press release from the general prosecutor’s office and the Münster police.
A second person arrested
The Iranian is “suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence threatening state security by obtaining cyanide and ricin with a view to committing an Islamist attack”, specify the investigators, adding that a Another person had also been arrested during the operation and taken into custody.
The main suspect should be presented in the coming days to an investigating judge with a view to his possible placement in pre-trial detention, adds the prosecution. According to the daily Bild, the German authorities were reportedly warned several days ago by a foreign intelligence service of the threat of a “chemical bomb” attack.