A man arrested in a police raid near Leipzig at the weekend was suspected of plotting an attack in Berlin, German media have reported. According to police, a man in his mid-twenties from North Africa was arrested at a refugee home in Borsdorf near Leipzig in the early hours of Saturday. Police reported that the arrest had prevented a potential “acute crime” after state authorities in Saxony received evidence on Friday. Police there have said that the man had “shown interest” in extremist organizations such as Isis. Germany has been on heightened terror alert after its own recent terror attack in which a man drove a truck into a crowded Berlin Christmas market in December, killing 12 people, in the name of Isis.

Source: The Local April 10, 2017 08:03 UTC