German Police Detains Bomb Plot Suspect
MEP: German police have arrested a Syrian man after a two-day manhunt in the eastern city of Leipzig they suspect of planning a bomb attack.
Jaber al-Bakr, who arrived in Germany as a refugee, was detained in a flat in the early hours of Monday.
Police were looking for the 22-year-old after finding several hundred grammes of an explosive in an apartment they raided on Saturday in the eastern city of Chemnitz.
He had sought help from another Syrian, who had alerted police and tied him up, Germany’s Spiegel website reported.
