German police arrest man suspected of planning attack
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Policemen patrol through a pedestrian area in Munich, southern Germany, on July 23, 2016, one day after the attack at the shopping centre in Munich.
PHOTO: AFP
BERLIN (REUTERS) - German elite police have arrested a 27-year-old German man suspected of having explosives in his apartment and planning an attack at a festival in the eastern town of Eisenhuettenstadt, Germany's Focus magazine reported on Wednesday (Aug 17).
The magazine reported the man had a Salafist background.
Police were not immediately available to comment. The interior ministry in the state of Brandenburg declined to comment.