Overview
- Investigators arrested the suspect on Saturday in Berlin’s Neukölln district on suspicion of preparing a jihadist-motivated attack.
- The Berlin public prosecutor’s office is probing the case for preparation of a serious state-endangering violent act, and the man was to be brought before a judge on Sunday.
- Prosecutors describe a jihadist motive, and Stern reports prosecutors said the suspect had repeatedly shared Islamic State propaganda on a social platform.
- Bild, citing security sources, reports searches of three residences, the involvement of special units, and materials suitable for explosives, as well as a possible suicide plot, which authorities have not publicly confirmed.
- Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt cautioned that the terrorism threat level is considered abstract but high, and opposition figures renewed calls for tighter deportation of terror suspects.