A 20-year-old Iraqi man has been deported back to his homeland after German authorities suspected he was planning a “terrorist attack,” Germany’s interior ministry said Saturday.
The interior ministry of the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt accused the unnamed man of planning a “serious act of violence”. He is permanently banned from entering Germany.
German authorities said the suspect lived in Saxony-Anhalt but worked in Lower Saxony.
The police received a tip about the suspect, suggesting that he was planning a “serious attack” on the Christmas market, according to the media.
He was arrested in Lower Saxony on November 21.
The ministry said the deportation order was based on “preventing a specific threat to the security of the Federal Republic of Germany or a terrorist threat.”
It is not clear whether any evidence has been found to confirm the said plans, Fena writes.
