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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 1 november 2017
German police foil attack plot with arrest of Syrian man

By K. GRIESHABER identified “soldier of the
Associated Press caliphate” or Islamic State
BERLIN (AP) — A Syrian extremist group, Frauke
man was arrested in north- Koehler from the federal
eastern Germany on Tues- prosecutor’s office told re-
day morning for allegedly porters. He also researched
planning a bomb attack bomb-making instructions
targeting “the biggest pos- online.Yaman A. had al-
sible number of people,” ready been under around
authorities said. the clock surveillance for
Special forces arrested some time, after the coun-
the 19-year-old in the city try’s intelligence authorities
of Schwerin, federal pros- first found traces of his ac-
ecutors said. They said the tivities and then were able
man, whose identity was to identify him. The spokes-
only given as Yaman A. in woman denied to give fur-
line with Germany privacy ther details on the suspect.
rules, was motivated by German Interior Minis-
extremist Islamic ideology. ter Thomas de Maiziere
They said it wasn’t clear if thanked officials for “pre-
he had already chosen a venting yet another severe
specific target for his at- terror attack in Germany.”
tack. Police stand in front of a building in the northeastern German city of Schwerin Tuesday, Oct. 31, He added the terror threat
2017 after German authorities arrested a 19-year-old Syrian citizen there for allegedly planning a
“According to the current bomb attack with high explosives in order to kill a large number of people. by Islamic extremists in the
investigation, Yaman A. (Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP) country, Europe and the
made a decision, at the West in general remains
latest in July 2017, to ignite ties said. that the accused was a nization — though he did “unchanged at a high
an explosive in Germany, Authorities searched the member of a terror orga- communicate with an un- level.”q
to kill and injure the biggest man’s apartment and
possible number of peo- nearby homes of other
ple,” prosecutors wrote in people who they said
a statement. weren’t suspected of any
The suspect had already involvement in the crime.
procured chemicals used An apartment in Hamburg
to fabricate the explosive was also searched in con-
TATP and other bomb- nection with the foiled at-
making materials usually tack, the German news
used to build a remote- agency dpa reported.
controlled bomb, authori- There were no indications
Two rights organizations criticize
‘inhuman’ Dutch terror jail units

THE HAGUE, Netherlands combatting the spread
(AP) — Two international among inmates of extrem-
rights organizations criti- ist ideology.
cized the Dutch govern- The 60-page report said
ment Tuesday for detaining that restrictions on social
people convicted of or sus- contacts for detainees in
pected of terror offenses some cases “appeared to
in “inhuman conditions” be in breach of the state’s
at two top-security prison obligation to treat detain-
units. ees humanely or of the pro-
Amnesty International and hibition of torture and other
the Open Society Justice cruel, inhuman or degrad-
Initiative said in a report ing treatment.”
that detainees in the two Measures used at the units
units are routinely confined “can unnecessarily isolate
to their individual cells for and humiliate people” and
between 19 and 22 hours violate the Netherlands’
each day, and that guards human rights obligations,
“routinely and frequently Doutje Lettinga, of Am-
administer full-nudity body nesty International Nether-
searches that are invasive lands, said in a statement.
and humiliating.” The report, based on in-
In a written reaction, Min- terviews with 50 people
ister for Legal Protection including 19 ex-detainees,
Sander Dekker said that recommends that sus-
Dutch prisons, including pects awaiting trial on ter-
the two terror units, adhere ror charges should not be
to international standards held together with detain-
and defended the deten- ees convicted of terror of-
tion regime as a way of fenses. q