German police detained an Iranian suspected of planning an “Islamist-motivated” attack
CASTROP-RAUXEL, Germany, 8 january (Reuters) – A 32-year-old German police officer Iran detained its citizen on suspicion of obtaining deadly poison cyanide and ricin for an “Islamist-motivated” attack. Sunday.
According to the joint press release of the Düsseldorf prosecutor’s office and the police in Recklinghausen and Muenster, the suspect’s residence in Castrop-Rauxel was searched as part of the investigation.
Police said that the Iranian is suspected of planning a “serious act of violence endangering the state” by acquiring cyanide and ricin to carry out an Islamist-motivated attack. This is from 6 months 10 until imprisonment means punishment.
“Germany continues to be a direct target of Islamist terrorist organizations. Lone criminals with Islamist motives are another significant threat,” Germany’s interior minister Nancy Faeser said after the news of the investigation.
“Therefore, our security agencies are ready for an attack at any time,” he said, adding that 20Since 2000, German security agencies have prevented 21 Islamist attacks in Germany.
Holger Hemming from the Düsseldorf Prosecutor’s Office told Reuters TV that the police seized electronic storage devices, but a search of Castrop-Rauxel found neither cyanide nor ricin.
‘TIP-OFF’
Castrop-Rauxel is in Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Interior Minister Herbert Reul said: “It was a serious incident that prompted the police to intervene at night. news we got Authorities are currently investigating at full speed. “
Hemming said the tip came from a security agency of a “friendly nation” without explanation. Mass tabloid Bild of the said agency USA Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
Policeas part of the searches, the second person was detained, because the investigation is ongoing, official imprisonment said that the decision will be made later.
Hemming confirmed that the man was the suspect’s brother.
Occurring naturally in castor beans, ricin can cause death within 36 to 72 hours after exposure to a pinhead-sized amount. There is no known antidote.
According to Germany’s domestic intelligence services, the number of members or supporters of Islamist causes in 2021 will exceed that of the armed Islamic State group “military based on fragmentation” decreased by 1.5% to 28,290 people.
On December 19, 2016, Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist ties, drove his truck into a crowded Christmas market in west Berlin, killing 11 people and injuring dozens.
News of Sunday’s searches also revealed that German authorities have identified 25 members and supporters of a far-right group that the prosecutor’s office says is preparing to violently overthrow the state. imprisonment it happens a month after he did it.
Reporting by Christoph Steitz and Stephane Nitschke in Frankfurt and Andreas Kranz in Castrop-Rauxel; Added by Markus Wacket in Berlin report; Edited by Elaine Hardcastle
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2023-01-09 02:40:22
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