(DPA) German authorities have arrested four teenagers on suspicion of plotting a deadly Islamist terrorist attack in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, prosecutors said on Friday.
The state’s Central Office for the Prosecution of Terrorism sought an arrest warrant for the teens over the Easter holiday.
They are suspected of plotting a terrorist attack “in accordance with the aims and ideology of [extremist terror group] Islamic State.”
Three of the suspects are from North Rhine-Westphalia, according to the state’s interior minister, Herbert Reul: a 15-year-old girl from Dusseldorf, a 15-year-old boy from the town of Lippstadt and a 16-year-old girl from the city of Iserlohn.
