Odyssey of 19-year-old Tajik occasion for Anti-terrorist operations

In North Rhine-Westphalia, a total of 11 suspected Islamists have been temporarily arrested. Meanwhile, the release of the Festival has been arranged. The information of the General Prosecutor's office, according to furthermore, because of the preparation of severe state-endangering Offence is detected. The trigger for the inserts, the irrlichternde drive of a 19-Year-olds, including a pedestrian zone in Essen. the

The police in North Rhine-Westphalia, a total of arrested eleven suspected Islamists because of terrorist suspicion. Some of the men between the ages of 22 and 35 years, were already on the loose, said a spokesman authorities at noon. Against six persons will continue to be determined on suspicion of preparing a serious seditious act of violence.

Apparently, the Odyssey of a 19-year-old Tajik, who was in the city centre of Essen on Friday, among other things, by a pedestrian area, racing was the reason for the actions in two provinces. "Because they had a fear that perhaps this is the prelude for several attack scenarios," said a spokesman for the General Prosecutor's office in Düsseldorf on Saturday. This has not been confirmed apparently. It is unclear why the 19-Year-old motorist, several people vulnerable, and whether this had a possibly terrorist Background.

Concrete information on possible terrorist targets, or an impending fact, it's not, according to current findings said the spokesman. Investigators are checking possible Links of individuals to the terrorist militia "Islamic state" (IS). "We suspect that it is a splinter group of the IS or sympathizers," said attorney Daniel Vollmert of the German press Agency.

In Essen, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Mönchengladbach, Duisburg, and five other cities in North Rhine-Westphalia had given it on Friday and Saturday searches, in the special forces of the police involved had been. In Ulm, armed police officers had positioned themselves at the entrances to the pedestrian zone. This was purely a precautionary measure, the police announced on Saturday. First of all, the media had reported consistently, also in Ulm, it had come to participated in one or more.

announced As the spokesman for the düsseldorf Prosecutor General's office, have you can in the course of the search "no explosives and no weapons". This was the suspicion. The investigation on suspicion of preparing a serious seditious act of violence went. An urgent suspicion that would justify a warrant, there wouldn't be.

The 19-year-old Tajik had taken the police on Friday. The vehicle he had parked there already. He has personal contacts to Ulm, which caused, apparently, the use in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

editor's note

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