Islamist terrorist arrested with “concrete attack plans”

A seventeen-year-old Islamist from Schleswig-Holstein has planned an attack. The Flensburg public prosecutor’s office announced this on Tuesday. The office is investigating on suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state and conspiracy to commit murder.

The authorities did not initially disclose details of the attack plans. The plans were “sufficiently concrete,” said senior public prosecutor Bernd Winterfeldt to the FAZ. He did not want to confirm reports that the accused had planned an attack on a Christmas market with the help of a truck.

Where he became radicalized is unclear

According to the public prosecutor’s office, extensive investigations carried out together with the State Criminal Police Office revealed that the accused had become considerably radicalized. The accused’s Islamist extremist attitude ultimately led to the attack plan.

The accused was born in Germany and has German citizenship. His parents are said to have roots in a foreign country. It is unclear where the accused became radicalized. The tip-off about the attack plans is said to have come from a foreign secret service. The accused, who lives in Elmshorn, was arrested last Wednesday and is in custody.

The public prosecutor’s office is also investigating the youth for conspiracy to commit murder. There could therefore be other suspects. Further investigations will show this, according to the public prosecutor’s office. The youth is known to the police, and there is information about him from an earlier case involving allegations of bodily harm. However, according to the public prosecutor’s office, the case is not yet complete.