German authorities have arrested a 17-year-old boy in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, who is suspected of planning a terrorist attack on the Christmas market, “Bild” reports.
On Wednesday, November 6, German investigators arrested a 17-year-old boy in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, who is suspected of planning a terrorist attack on the Christmas market, the German publication “Bild” reports. According to the conclusion of the newspaper, this teenager intended to run over people with a truck. The truck was used by an Islamic terrorist at the Berlin fair in December 2016. 13 people died at that time.
According to “Bild” findings, the 17-year-old has Turkish roots and has been under surveillance since the spring of this year. The American intelligence service has given alarming information about plans to carry out a terrorist attack to the Federal Criminal Office in Germany.
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Schleswig-Holstein Interior Minister Sabine Sutterlin-Waack said “the security authorities did a good job and apparently prevented a possible attack”. “We must always be vigilant,” he said.
Attack on the Berlin Fair
On December 19, 2016, a 40-ton truck plowed into a crowd at one of the Christmas markets in Berlin's Breitscheidplatz. In this attack, 13 people were killed and more than 60 people were injured. In addition to Germans, among the victims there were also people from Poland, Israel, Italy, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. The child of the attack, Anis Amri, a Tunisian, was shot four days later in Milan, where he had fled Germany. The so-called Islamic State.
The attack on Breitscheidplatz is commemorated with a 17-meter-high golden crack in the ground at the site of the attack. It is meant to show the deep wound that the attack left in the lives of those affected by it. The names of the victims are carved on the steps of the Memorial Church. There is also the name of Lukasz Urban, the driver of the truck used by the attacker.
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