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German Police Find Daesh Flags, Guns in Islamist Suspects’ Homes – Police Chief

© REUTERS / Wolfgang RattayGerman police officers gather near the Hauptbahnhof before New Year celebrations for 2017 in Cologne, Germany, December 31, 2016
German police officers gather near the Hauptbahnhof before New Year celebrations for 2017 in Cologne, Germany, December 31, 2016 - Sputnik International
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German police found guns, machetes and flags of the Daesh terrorist group in houses of two suspected jihadists, a Goettingen police chief said Thursday.

BERLIN (Sputnik) — Police in the state of Lower Saxony arrested two suspected Islamists during a special operation earlier in the day. They are reportedly an Algerian and a Nigerian nationals in their 20s.

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"Our employees found pellet guns remade into lethal weapons as well as firearms, IS [Daesh] flags and machetes," Uwe Luehrig said.

Earlier in the day German police reportedly arrested on Thursday two jihadists suspected of planning a terrorist attack during a special operation in Gottingen. The arrested men are an Algerian national, 27, and a Nigerian, 23.

German police searched a total of 12 locations in Goettingen as well as in the neighboring northern state of Hesse. Luehrig said the operation had been planned a week in advance.

The decision to search the homes of suspects and people close to them was taken after police assessed the risk of a terrorist attack as "high." "The level of threat was obvious," Luehrig said.

Both suspects were residents of Goettingen. They had been under surveillance for a long time on suspicion of being radicalized.

German law enforcement agencies have been on high alert, conducting operations to capture suspected Islamists, since a truck attack by a failed Tunisian asylum seeker on a Berlin Christmas market last December killed 12 people and injured scores of others. It was claimed by the IS.

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