(AFP) Austria has arrested an Iraqi suspected of committing “terrorist attacks” by sabotaging railway lines in Germany last year, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The 42-year-old man is suspected of having strung a steel rope across the tracks between the southern German cities of Munich and Nuremberg, damaging the front window of a train in October last year.
A similar case occurred in December last year near Berlin when an overhead electrical line was damaged, it said. No one was injured in either incident.
“The planned killing of people was avoided only due to a technical error,” a statement by Vienna prosecutors said, adding writings in Arabic and an Islamic State (IS) flag near the crime scenes established a suspected “terrorist” motive.
