(Deutsche Welle) German police revealed on Friday that they prevented a planned Islamist attack in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer.
Andy Grote, top security official for the city, which like the cities of Berlin and Bremen is a state in its own right, said that the plot had been “very, very serious.”
On August 26, police arrested a 20-year-old German-Moroccan man after he tried to buy a firearm and hand grenade on the dark web — unwittingly from an undercover investigator.
The man had “numerous contacts to the Salafi-Islamist scene,” Grote said in a press conference.
Bomb-building material found
The suspect has been in detention since August after a judge ruled that he had been planning to carry out an attack, police said.
