MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The suspect was arrested in the town of Mutterstadt on Friday after inmates in a prison in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported overhearing a conversation in which the planning of a terrorist attack was alluded to, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported.
The arrested asylum seeker is thought to be a Daesh jihadist group sympathizer. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Ministry released a statement clarifying that the alleged terrorist plot being investigated at no point posed a real threat to security.
Last month, an Afghan asylum seeker carried out an ax and knife attack on a train near Bavaria's Wuerzburg, wounding five tourists. A few days later, a Syrian refugee set off a bomb outside a music festival in Ansbach, also in Bavaria, killing himself and wounding 15 bystanders. Daesh, banned in Russia among other countries, claimed responsibility for both attacks.
