Man wanted in Germany for alleged IS terror plot arrested

April 30, 2020   

(AP) A 24-year-old man wanted in Germany for allegedly belonging to a cell that planned attacks on behalf of the Islamic State group has been arrested in Albania, police said Thursday.

Albanian police said the suspect, a citizen of Tajikistan identified only as K.Z., was arrested on an international warrant issued by a federal court in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Police said in a statement that the man is accused of being part of a terror group that has “founded a terror cell in Germany to make jihad on behalf of the Islamic State.”

The statement did not say why the suspect was in Albania.

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