A 32-year-old Iranian man suspected of preparing an “Islamist” attack with cyanide and ricin has been arrested in western Germany, Düsseldorf police and the general prosecutor’s office announced on Sunday.
His accommodation in Castrop-Rauxel, located in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, was searched for possible “toxic substances” intended to carry out an attack, according to a press release from the general prosecutor’s office and the Münster police. .
The Iranian is “suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence that threatened the security of the State by obtaining cyanide and ricin with a view to committing an Islamist attack,” the investigators specify, adding that another person had also been arrested during the operation. and taken into custody.
Threat of attack with “chemical bomb”
The main suspect must be presented in the coming days before an investigating judge with a view to his possible entry into preventive detention, adds the prosecutor’s office.
according to the newspaper Photographythe German authorities were reportedly warned several days ago by a foreign intelligence service of the threat of a “chemical bomb” attack.
Germany has been the target of several Islamist attacks in recent years, including a ram truck attack on a Christmas market in December 2016 that left 13 dead.
Source: BFM TV
