(AP) A 21-year-old German has been arrested at the French border on suspicion of trying to buy a firearm in preparation for an Islamist attack, officials said Friday.
Prosecutors in the southwest German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said the man, whose name wasn’t released, was detained Thursday as he tried to enter from neighboring France, where he lives.
German state police and officers from a tactical response unit in the French town of Kehl were involved in the operation, prosecutors said in a statement.
German authorities said the suspect allegedly belongs to the “radical Islamist spectrum” and had obtained several manuals for the construction of improvised bombs and incendiary devices, and shared them with others.
