BERLIN (AP) – German police on Wednesday arrested a man who is suspected of planning an attack and is believed to have stored explosives at his apartment.
The suspect is a 27-year-old German man who lived in the eastern city of Eisenhuettenstadt, Frankfurt an der Oder, police told the dpa news agency.
Brandenburg state governor Dietmar Woidke said police suspect the man was “planning an act of terrorism” and that he might have contacts to Islamic extremism, dpa reported.
Ingo Hesse, a spokesman for police in Frankfurt an der Oder, told n-tv television the man is under investigation for violations of explosives laws.
Hesse said that the man was being questioned and his apartment was being searched. Asked whether he had contacts to the Islamic extremist scene, he said that “we don’t yet have this information.”