German security forces arrested suspected terrorist organization sympathizer Islamic State (AE) that intended to attack with firearms against the the Israeli Embassy in BerlinThe federal prosecutor’s office confirmed it this Sunday.
In a statement, the public prosecutor’s office indicated that it is the Libyan citizen Omar A., who was arrested on Saturday afternoon in the city of Bernaunear Berlin.
In the arrest warrant he is accused membership in a foreign terrorist organization and having intended to carry out “a firearms attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin since at least October 2024.”
To plan this, the accused exchanged information in a messaging conversation with an ISIS member, added the federal prosecutor’s office.
According to the newspaper PICTUREthe 28-year-old Libyan He intended to flee abroad after the attack.
The German authorities, according to the same source, traced the man thanks to information from foreign intelligence services.
The day before, agents of the federal police and the Federal Office of Judicial Police searched the apartment of the accused in Bernau as well as the home of a non-suspect in a district of the North-Westphalia region , explained the prosecution.
The accused will appear this Sunday before the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice, who will issue the arrest order and decide on the execution of preventive detention.
Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor thanked German authorities on the social network X for their work to ensure the security of the legation.
“Muslim anti-Semitism is no longer just hateful rhetoric; conducts and encourages terrorist activities worldwide. “This is yet another example of Israeli embassies being on the front lines of the diplomatic battlefield,” he wrote.
“I would like to congratulate the German police authorities for their intensive efforts to ensure the safety of official representatives of the State of Israel,” he said.
