‘Islamist attack’ thwarted in Germany, official says; 2 arrested
Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, April 30th, 2015(CNN)German authorities think they “have thwarted an Islamist attack,” and a married couple have been arrested in a town near Frankfurt in connection with the case, the interior minister for the German state of Hesse told reporters Thursday.
The official didn’t provide details about the alleged plot, but German media are reporting that a man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of planning a bomb attack on a bicycle road race that is slated to run near Frankfurt on Friday.
The couple were arrested in Oberursel, a town near Frankfurt in west-central Germany, said Peter Beuth, interior minister for Hesse.
“We suspect that there was a Salafist background,” Beuth said, referring to ultra-fundamentalist interpretations of Islam. “Police investigations at this stage indicate that we have thwarted an Islamist attack.”
The German media reports say police believe the arrested pair were Salafists plotting to detonate a homemade bomb at a spot where the racing cyclists would have passed through a forest near Oberursel.
Police searched the couple’s home and recovered a pipe bomb packed with nails, other explosives, and at least one assault rifle, the German media reports say.
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