Searches in North Rhine -West

A special unit of the police has caught a 27-year-old terrorist terrorist in Essen. The man is suspected of having committed together with other frauds in order to obtain money for an Islamistically motivated terrorist attack. He is now in custody. A judge announced the warrant and enforced him, said chief prosecutor Alexandra Wiese of the German Press Agency. The Attorney General Düsseldorf had obtained the arrest warrant.

The 27-year-old is accused of the financing of a planned Islamist-terroristically motivated attack. “We assume that he has committed fraud and with the funds he has achieved through these frauds, to plan to organize an attack,” said the spokeswoman. She did not want to give details about the planned attack.

The suspect is a man with Bosnian-Herzegovinian citizenship who came to Germany with his mother as a child. So far, the 27-year-old, who received a settlement permit as an adolescent, should not have been noticed with state protection cars.

According to information from the German Press Agency, he only turned to Islamist ideology less than two years ago. The fact that the police already knew him is in appeal with various offenses in which violence and drugs are said to have played a role, among other things.

There are other suspects in the Essen and Dortmund area, said the prosecutor. So far there has been only a suspicion against them. This is how a 22 -year -old is being investigated in Dortmund – but only because of fraud. How many suspects are being dealt with was not said.

North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) said the police stopped possible terrorist. He emphasized the investigators’ determination to act against terrorist activities. “Anyone who pursues terrorist plans with us must expect that the SEK will be at the door in the morning-in time,” said the CDU politician.

According to information from security circles, the accused’s plans for the procurement of weapons had recently become more specific. In view of the possible terrorist scenarios he had in mind, it can be assumed that he at least accepted his own death.

“The police then no longer let the police out of their eyes. The man was observed around the clock to gather further knowledge about other people. This morning at 5:00 a.m. he was taken into custody,” said Reul. Regarding the residence status of the main suspect, Reul said: “He was totally legal here.”

Fraud with expensive electrical appliances

The fraud is said to have been the purchase and sale of high -priced electrical appliances. The investigative authorities assumed that they were ordered and then did not pay, said chief prosecutor Wiese of the German Press Agency. “We assume that it wanted to get money through resale and that at least five -digit amounts have already been raised.”

The other suspects are apparently only suspected of fraud or the aid: “But whether they knew what these funds should be used for is the subject of the investigation.”

Searches in four cities in NRW

In total, searches took place at the same time in six objects in the cities of Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Soest, such as the Attorney General Düsseldorf and the Essen police.

In Essen and Dortmund, the accused was searched. The 27-year-old was arrested. In Düsseldorf and Soest, witnesses were searched to confiscate evidence.