Overview
- Police and prosecutors say the suspects considered using a vehicle to strike visitors at a Christmas market in southern Bavaria.
- The men in custody are a 56-year-old Egyptian, a 37-year-old Syrian, and three Moroccans aged 22, 28, and 30.
- Four suspects were placed under formal arrest warrants and a fifth was held in preventive custody after all appeared before a magistrate on Dec 13.
- Authorities have not specified where arrests occurred, which market may have been targeted, when the attack could have taken place, or how developed the plan was.
- Bavaria’s interior minister credited fast coordination among security services with thwarting the suspected plot as markets operate under heightened vigilance after recent vehicle-ramming attacks.