A person has been arrested in Germany on charges of planning terrorist attacks during Christmas

According to the report of the international group Tasnim News Agency, citing the newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, a A 20-year-old man was arrested in the state of Lower Saxony on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack on Christmas.

Daniela Behrens, the minister of the interior of the state of Lower Saxony, said on Thursday: “He has declared that he clearly wants to carry out attacks with important events during the Christmas season, and that’s why we put him under preventive detention.

The suspect, from Saxony-Anhalt, was arrested on November 21, the media reported, citing a joint investigation. He was arrested at Helmsted. The interior minister of this state said that he came from Iraq.

According to the published information, he remains in police custody based on security measures. The criminal police department of the state of Lower Saxony did not provide any other information and details in this regard for tactical reasons.

“Daniela Behrens” also said: “Due to the security situation in the Christmas markets, the police there, among other things, The reason for the armed conflict in the Middle East is “very clear and strong”.

Recently, two young men were arrested in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg, who are said to be close to the terrorist organization ISIS and plan to attack the Christmas market. they had done They are in custody.

Dusseldorf prosecutors said on Thursday that they had agreed to kill visitors to a Christmas market in Leverkusen in early December using a fuel explosion in a small truck.

Thomas Halden Wang, head of Germany’s internal security agency (BfV), warned in Berlin on Wednesday that the risk of terrorist attacks in Germany has become real and higher than it has been for a long time.

In this way, this security organization warned about the increased risk of attacks in Germany as a result of Israel’s war in Gaza. It has been a long time.

According to Halden Wang, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has been observing ISIS’ stated desire to carry out attacks in the West for some time. He himself has repeatedly emphasized that every day an extreme terrorist attack may take place in Germany. According to him, due to the war in Israel and the Gaza Strip, this threat has now acquired a new quality.

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