German police catch man suspected of planning a bomb attack
Saxony state police say they are ‘tired but overjoyed’ after capturing a terrorist suspect who slipped through their grasp during a raid on Saturday
BERLIN — German police said on Monday they had captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who had slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago."Tired but overjoyed: we captured the terror suspect last night in Leipzig," Saxony state police said on Twitter.Police had been looking for the suspect, 22-year-old Syrian refugee Jaber Albakr, since he evaded them during a raid on an apartment in the eastern city of Chemnitz on Saturday.Police found several hundred grams of explosive in the apartment during Saturday’s raid.Albakr had been in Germany since 2015 and was officially recognised as a refugee, police said at the weekend."The overall picture of the investigation, in particular the amount of the explosive found, suggests that the person was planning to carry out an Islamist-motivated attack," a spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor’s Office told broadcaster SWR on Sunday.The suspicion that a refugee was planning a bomb attack will prove unwelcome news for Chancellor...
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