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German police swoop to foil ‘extremists plot’
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POLICE in central Germany detained two men they described as known Islamic extremists yesterday in an investigation of suspected plans for an attack.
The men, a 27-year-old Algerian and a 23-year-old Nigerian whose names weren’t released, were detained during early-morning searches in and near Goettingen.
Both men live in the city and have long been part of the Salafist scene there, police said.
Twelve properties were searched in the operation. Information about a possible attack plan had accumulated in recent days to the extent that officials decided to take quick action, Goettingen police chief Uwe Luehrig said.
Investigators found two weapons, at least one of them a firearm that required no permit but had been altered to fire live rounds, senior Goettingen police official Volker Warnecke told reporters.
They also found ammunition, flags of the Islamic State group and a machete.
Warnecke said investigators had been looking into the local radical scene for several months and determined last weekend that the suspects might carry out an attack soon.
Officials could not yet say how concrete and advanced the plans were, including what the suspects intended to and what or where the target might have been.
The suspects are not asylum-seekers and had “worked sporadically,” he said.
Germany was shaken last year by three attacks claimed by IS, including the December 19 attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in which 12 people died.
In a separate case, federal prosecutors said yesterday they have charged three Syrians with being members of a terrorist organization.
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