(BBC) Two boys aged 15 and 16 have been arrested by German authorities on suspicion of planning a militant Islamist attack on a Christmas market or a synagogue.
The younger boy, a German-Afghan from the western town of Burscheid, was detained after his home was searched.
The seriousness of the alleged plot was not immediately clear to authorities.
Police apparently intervened to be on the safe side, because the boy had identified a time and place.
“It seemed very concrete,” said local interior minister Herbert Reul.
