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Germany arrests Syrian migrant over police car bomb plot

A potentially lethal Daesh plot has been foiled by German police. They detained a man from Syria who intended to buy eight cars and convert them into VBIEDs. The man claimed that he only planned to defraud the Daesh and take their money since his family that is still in Syria need economic support  -Vasilis Chronopoulos

German police in the western state of Saarland arrested a Syrian migrant who solicited funds from the “Islamic State” militant group in order to carry out a high-casualty terrorist attack, prosecutors said on Monday.

The prosecutor’s office in Saarbrücken said the man asked an “Islamic State” contact for money “so we could purchase vehicles which he could load with explosives and which he wanted to drive into crowds … and blow up in order to kill unknown numbers of people who do not follow the Muslim faith.”

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A potentially lethal Daesh plot has been foiled by German police. They detained a man from Syria who intended to buy eight cars and convert them into VBIEDs. The man claimed that he only planned to defraud the Daesh and take their money since his family that is still in Syria need economic support  -Vasilis Chronopoulos

German police in the western state of Saarland arrested a Syrian migrant who solicited funds from the “Islamic State” militant group in order to carry out a high-casualty terrorist attack, prosecutors said on Monday.

The prosecutor’s office in Saarbrücken said the man asked an “Islamic State” contact for money “so we could purchase vehicles which he could load with explosives and which he wanted to drive into crowds … and blow up in order to kill unknown numbers of people who do not follow the Muslim faith.”

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