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Germany arrests Iranian for suspected terror plot

By AFP
January 09, 2023

BERLIN: An Iranian man has been arrested in western Germany suspected of preparing an “Islamist attack” using cyanide and ricin, police and prosecutors said Sunday.

The 32-year-old man was “suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence threatening the security of the state by obtaining cyanide and ricin with a view to committing an Islamist attack”, police in Muenster and Recklinghausen, along with the Duesseldorf prosecutor´s office, said in a statement.