Federal Prosecutor's Office: Islamist allegedly prepared attack on church

A 24-year-old Iraqi is said to have chosen a church in Bremen as a target and already procured a firearm. According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, he has now been arrested in Brandenburg. The Federal Prosecutor's Office has had a suspected Islamist arrested in Brandenburg, who is said to have planned attacks in Germany against what he believes to be infidels. The first target should be a church in Bremen, according to a statement from the authority.

She accuses the 24-year-old Iraqi of attempting to found a terrorist group and of preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state. It is also a violation of the Weapons Act. Another person is still being investigated According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, the man shares the radical Islamist ideology of the terrorist militia "Islamic State" (IS). For the planned attacks, he is said to have already obtained a firearm and scouted the church in Bremen.

He was able to win another person for his plans, but this is still unknown, according to the communication from the top German law enforcement agency. "Recruiting more people failed." Officials from the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police had arrested the 24-year-old in the Barnim district. An investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe ordered the execution of an arrest warrant issued a few days ago, so that he was remanded in custody. IS once controlled large areas in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

The threat in Syria has not completely disappeared, but the number of attacks has decreased significantly. Numerous supporters of IS have already been on trial in Germany.