An 18-year-old is suspected of planning acts of terror in Germany and Austria as well as instructing a 12-year-old German boy to attack a south German Christmas market in 2016.
Prior to the suspect’s arrest on Wednesday over alleged plans to carry out an Isis-style ramming attack on the crowds outside a skating rink in the southern German city, security authorities had kept a close eye on the man for some time.
Six Syrian refugees arrested in Germany on suspicion of preparing a terror attack on behalf of Isis were freed on Wednesday because of a lack of evidence, a prosecutor said.
German police on Tuesday arrested
six Syrian refugees suspected of preparing a terror attack in the name of the Islamic State jihadist group, prosecutors said.
Germany's election rallies will mourn victims of Spain's deadly attacks, but they won't be halted as they are a celebration of democracy, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.