Police arrested a person suspected of having ties to the Islamic State group and planning an attack on the Israeli embassy. Prosecutors say he planned to attack the diplomatic mission
Police arrested a person suspected of having ties to the Islamic State group and planning an attack on the Israeli embassy. According to prosecutors, he planned to attack the diplomatic mission with firearms. A Libyan man with suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) militant group was due to appear in Germany’s highest court on Sunday, accused of planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin.
The man was arrested on Saturday in the city of Bernau in the state of Brandenburg, just outside the capital. Prosecutors said he planned to use a weapon in the attack.
The suspect, named only as Omar A. in accordance with Germany’s strict privacy laws, was arrested during a raid by a heavily armed police unit in a suburb of Berlin on Saturday.
He is due to appear before the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe later Sunday, where a judge will decide whether or not he should be arrested during the investigation.
In a statement, the prosecutor’s office said the Libyan national planned to carry out “a large-scale attack with firearms on the Israeli embassy in Berlin.”
He added: “To plan the attack, the suspect exchanged information with a member of ISIS in a Messenger conversation.”
According to German media, the authorities were tipped off about the plot by a foreign intelligence service, which suggested that after the attack the suspect had planned to go to a relative’s house in the town of Sankt Augustin near the western city of Bonn before fleeing the county. .
