A teenager has been arrested in Germany for planning to repeat the terrorist attack in Berlin on Christmas Day 2016.
The young man detained in Elmshorn (Schleswig-Holstein) is 17 years old. He is a German citizen of Turkish origin. The Flensburg prosecutor confirmed to Bild that the young man is being investigated for “suspicion of preparing an act of serious violence that threatens the State and preparing to commit a crime, specifically murder.”
According to Bild, the Turk planned to carry out a terrorist attack at the Christmas market by crashing a truck into the crowd. These plans are reminiscent of the December 19, 2016 terrorist attack on Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz. So Islamist Anis Amri He stole a truck and put it in a Christmas market. The crime killed a total of 13 people, one of whom died from the consequences several years later. More than 70 people were injured, some of them seriously. The killer fled to Italy, where police shot him dead.
