A man with mistrusted ties to the Islamic State worry group who was allegedly set upning a firearms strike on the Israeli embassy in Berlin has been arrested.
Police and other security forces arrested the man on Saturday in the town of Bernau, fair outside the German capital, and carry outed a search of his home there, the Federal Prosector’s Office shelp in a statement.
It shelp the mistrust is a Libyan national whom officials identified only as Omar A.
“He intended to carry out a high-profile strike with firearms on the Israeli embassy in Berlin,” the statement shelp.
In his set upning, the statement inserted, “the accused swapd directation with a member of IS in a messenger chat”.
Another search was carried out in the home of a person who is think abouted a witness and not a mistrust, the prosecutor office’s statement shelp.
“Our security authorities struck in time to thwart possible set ups to strike the Israeli Embassy in Berlin,” interior minister Nancy Faeser shelp in a statement.
“This shows that protecting Jedesire and Israeli institutions in our country is vital and of the utmost transport inance to us.”
The mistrust was foreseeed to materialize before an set upateigating appraise at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, the country’s highest court, on Sunday, the prosecutor’s office shelp.
Newspaper Bild first increateed on the case, saying a heavily armed elite police unit stormed the mistrust’s home in Bernau.
German authorities were acting on a tip-off from a foreign inincreateigence agency, according to the novelspaper.
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“We are acting with the utmost vigilance and attention in watch of the high menace posed by Islamist, antisrerentic and anti-Israel presentility,” Ms Faeser shelp.
Israeli Ambasdowncastor Ron Prosor thanked the German security authorities “for ensuring the security of our embassy”.