German police arrest Syrian teen suspected of planning bombing
Germany’s federal prosecutor has announced the arrest of a teenage Syrian male suspected of planning a bombing attack to “kill as many people as possible.”
German police officers took into custody the 19-year-old, identified as Yamen A., in the northeastern town of Schwerin in the early hours of Tuesday, the federal prosecutor’s office declared later in the day.
“According to the findings so far, Yamen A. made the decision no later than July 2017 to detonate an explosive device in Germany in order to kill and injure as many people as possible,” said a statement issued by the prosecutor’s office.
“As a result, he began to procure components and chemicals needed to make an explosive device. Whether the suspect had already envisaged a specific target for his bomb attack is still unclear,” it added.
According to the report, police authorities searched the suspect’s home as well as the homes of several other individuals. It was not clear who the other individuals were or how they were connected to Yamen A.
The statement said there were “no indications” that the suspect was a member of a terrorist organization.
The statement did not say when Yamen A. had arrived in Germany and what his immigration status was.
The development came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is trying to form a new coalition government following elections in the country last month, has been fiercely criticized by right-wing politicians and groups for allowing more than one million people to enter the European country — many of them refugees from Syria — over the past two years.
Her so-called ‘open door’ refugee policy saw her conservative party’s losing support in the polls to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), which won seats in the national parliament for the first time in the elections last month.
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