{"id":103301,"date":"2025-12-14T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/five-arrested-over-plot-to-attack-german-christmas-market\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:05:17","slug":"five-arrested-over-plot-to-attack-german-christmas-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/five-arrested-over-plot-to-attack-german-christmas-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested over plot to attack German Christmas market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Five men have been arrested in Germany suspected of being involved in a plot to drive a vehicle into people at a Christmas market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian were detained on Friday over the plan to target a market in the southern Bavarian state. Authorities said they suspected an &#8220;Islamist motive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Prosecutors said the Egyptian &#8211; a 56-year-old &#8211; was alleged to have &#8220;called for a vehicle attack&#8230; with the aim of killing or injuring as many people as possible&#8221;. The Moroccans allegedly agreed to carry out the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Officials in Germany have been on high alert after previous attacks at Christmas markets, including in Magdeburg last December <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2l104k4vxo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">that killed six people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Authorities did not say when the planned attack was supposed to take place or which market was the target, though said they believed it to be one in the Dingolfing-Landau area, north east of Munich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">German newspaper Bild reported the Egyptian man was an imam at a mosque in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police said the Moroccan men &#8211; aged 30, 28 and 22 &#8211; were arrested accused of having agreed to commit murder, while the Syrian man, a 37-year-old, was accused of encouraging the suspects &#8220;in their decision to commit the crime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The five suspects appeared before a magistrate on Saturday and remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria&#8217;s state interior minister, told Bild the &#8220;excellent cooperation between our security services&#8221; had helped to prevent &#8220;a potentially Islamist-motivated attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Christmas markets are popular festive attractions throughout Germany, frequently attracting large crowds and significant tourism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Security at events has been increased in recent years, since an attack in Berlin in 2016 when a man drove a lorry into a market crowd, killing 12 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2dz7r708dxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five men have been arrested in Germany suspected of being involved in a plot to drive a vehicle into people at a Christmas market. 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