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Police in the western German city of Duisburg on Tuesday arrested a man who was allegedly planning a terror attack, multiple German media outlets reported.
The man was supposedly planning to attack a pro-Israel demonstration with a truck, publications Bild and Spiegel reported.
Essen police said on their website on Tuesday evening that they had received “indications of a possible attack scenario.”
The apartment of “a male person who was already known to the police in Duisburg’s Dellviertel” was then searched and a man taken into custody.
The media reports said the suspect, Tarik S. had previously been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf in 2017 for membership of the terrorist organization “Islamic State.”
However, Duisburg police on Tuesday evening said they could not confirm this.
“Whether this person prepared an attack is the subject of extensive investigations,” police said.
More to follow…
wd/wmr (AP, dpa)
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