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Police Foil Planned Attack In Berlin; Arrest Made Of Teen Asylum-Seeker

May 31 2017

Germany

Police in Germany have arrested a teenage asylum-seeker who was allegedly planning a suicide attack in Berlin, reports Deutsche Welle, citing an official in the state of Brandenburg.

The 17-year-old was detained in the Uckermark region of Brandenburg, said a state interior official on Tuesday.

The teen wrote about a planned attack in a message to his mother and said that "he had joined the jihad," the official said.

The suspect came to Germany in 2015 as an...

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