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Five arrested over plot to attack German Christmas market
Five men, including three Moroccans and an Egyptian imam, were arrested after authorities foiled a vehicle-ramming attack plot targeting a Christmas market in southern Bavaria.
- Five men have been arrested in Germany for allegedly plotting a vehicle attack at a Christmas market.
- Prosecutors say a 56-year-old Egyptian man allegedly called for a vehicle attack with the intention of harming many people.
- Authorities suspect an Islamist motive for the failed attack, given Germany's previous Christmas market attacks.
- Bavaria's state interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, reported that the cooperation of security services helped prevent a potentially Islamist-motivated attack.
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Christmas markets in the Dingolfing-Landau area were apparently the target of an attack. Five men were arrested, the authorities suspect an Islamist act motivation. Bavaria's interior minister Herrmann expressed his thanks to the security forces.
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German police reportedly thwarted an attack on a Christmas market.
German police have arrested five suspects, all foreigners, on charges of planning an attack on a Christmas market, motivated by radical Islamic ideology.
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