To prepare the attack, the man received powerful cyanide and castor toxins, which were released by experts at his house in protective suits.
German police and prosecutors arrested a 32-year-old Iranian on Sunday night on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack using toxic chemicals. This was reported by the AP citing law enforcement officials.
According to the report, a man and another person were detained overnight in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, northwest of Dortmund, on suspicion of planning a large-scale terrorist attack motivated by Islamic extremism.
According to law enforcement officials, in preparation for the attack, the man received powerful cyanide and castor toxins, which experts brought to his house in special protective suits.
More detailed information about plans to carry out a terrorist attack was not available.
The report quoted North Rhine-Westphalia’s security spokesman Herbert Reul as saying that authorities had received “serious information that prompted the police to take action that same evening.”
According to the tabloid Bild, the information about the alleged plans for a chemical attack came from allied state intelligence.
Earlier, in Strasbourg, France, police arrested seven people from Russia and Tajikistan on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.
The trial of the large-scale terrorist attack in Nice in July 2016, in which hundreds of people were injured, ended in Paris. The eight defendants were sentenced to prison terms, the maximum of which was 18 years.
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