Photo: DPAGerman police have arrested a soldier on suspicion of planning a serious act of violence. Prosecutors in Frankfurt am Main confirmed on Thursday that a 28-year-old soldier was arrested on suspicion of disguising himself as Syrian refugee in order to carry out a serious act of violence with xenophobic motives. Die Welt reported on Thursday that the soldier registered as a Syrian refugee in Giessen, Hesse in December 2015 and applied for asylum at the beginning of 2016. Authorities awarded him asylum, apparently not noticing his German background or the fact that he was unable to speak Arabic. Austrian police first noticed the soldier when he attempted to hide an illegally acquired pistol at Vienna Airport, possibly with the intention of later using it to carry out an act of violence.

Source: The Local April 27, 2017 09:11 UTC