2023-10-24 20:33:17
According to media reports, it is said to be a known jihadist. The police arrested the terror suspect.
Special police forces arrested a man in Duisburg on Tuesday. The police initially did not provide any information in the evening about the background to the arrest or the man’s identity. According to reports from “Spiegel” and “Bild”, it is said to be a terrorist suspect. Accordingly, he is said to have planned an attack on a pro-Israel event.
A spokeswoman for the Essen police neither wanted to confirm nor deny the reports. “We cannot yet confirm that this is the person we had in mind,” the spokeswoman said. The identification process is ongoing.
According to “Spiegel” it is said to be a convicted Islamist. The tip is said to have come from a foreign intelligence service. The authorities feared that the man could use a truck to which he should have easy access, according to “Spiegel”. It is unclear whether the man already had a specific demonstration in his sights.
According to consistent information from “Spiegel” and “Bild”, the person arrested is a man who was sentenced to five years in prison by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in 2017 for membership in the terrorist group “Islamic State”.
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