(DPA) German police have arrested a man and searched multiple properties across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in connection with a suspected Islamist terrorist plot, the Dusseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Essen police said on Wednesday.
Raids were carried out simultaneously at six properties in the cities of Essen, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, and Soest, prosecutors and Essen police said in a joint statement.
A 27-year-old man with Bosnian-Herzegovinian citizenship was detained on suspicion of terrorism and was due to appear before an investigating magistrate later on Wednesday. The Dusseldorf public prosecutor’s office has obtained an arrest warrant for the man, a spokeswoman said.
