German police arrested three minors suspected of preparing a terrorist attack over the Easter weekend, the Düsseldorf prosecutor’s office announced this Friday.
The young people, two girls of 15 and 16 years old and a boy of 15, from the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the northwest of Germany, are suspected of having “planned a terrorist attack with Islamist motivations and of having acknowledged being willing to commit it,” the Düsseldorf prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
“Due to the age of the suspects and the fact that the investigation is still ongoing,” the entity did not give more details about what type of attack they were preparing.
According to the newspaper Bild, the teenagers planned to attack police and churches with knives and Molotov cocktails in the name of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). “They considered getting firearms,” he said.
In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper at the end of March, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser stressed that “the danger of Islamist terrorism remains high” in Germany.
According to her, “the greatest Islamist threat in Germany comes from the Islamic State of Khorasan”, a branch of the IS group that operates in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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