Germany: Man suspected of planning attack as IS member
BERLIN — German police arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State group and planning an attack with a vehicle, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The man, a German citizen identified by prosecutors only as Dasbar W., was arrested by a police tactical response unit in the southwest German city of Karlsruhe.
Prosecutors said that W. began distributing IS propaganda material online between April and July 2015, and trained others to hide their Internet address and use so-called messenger services. He allegedly travelled to Iraq in June 2015, where he joined IS, received firearms training and scouted targets for an attack in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.
Prosecutors said in a statement that W. returned to Germany in July 2017, where he considered using a vehicle to carry out an attack on a site in Karlsruhe.