German police detain ‘jihadist’ teen over suspected Berlin terrorist plot

08:22, 31 May 2017

POTSDAM. KAZINFORM A 17-year-old "jihadist" has been detained in northeast Germany, local police said. He is reported to be a Syrian national suspected of planning a terrorist attack, officials announced, according to DPA news agency.

The suspect was allegedly planning to carry out a suicide bombing attack in the German capital, DPA reports, citing the interior minister of the state of Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Schroeter.

In a tweet with an attached statement, law enforcement authorities said they had detained a "jihadist" in the community of Uckermark, north of Berlin on the border with Poland.

Dschihadist in der #Uckermark festgesetzt > 17-Jähriger nach Hinweisen einer Familienangehörigen in Gewahrsam genommen. ^sn pic.twitter.com/IoRZDELUim
— Polizei Brandenburg (@PolizeiBB) May 30, 2017