European terror attacks halted as German police arrest two known African Islamic extremists and Turkish cops seize four ISIS members with 24 suicide belts
A 27-year-old Algerian and a 23-year-old Nigerian were arrested in dawn raids
About 450 police officers searched several properties in the city of Göttingen
Germany remains on high alert after a series of jihadist attacks on its soil
In Turkey police seized suicide belts and detained four suspected ISIS members
By HANNAH AL-OTHMAN
DailyMail.com
9 February 2017
Police have foiled a plot to launch a terror attack on European soil after they arrested six suspected Islamists and seized two dozen suicide belts in raids in both Turkey and Germany.
Officers in central Germany detained two known Islamic extremists as part of an investigation into a possible terror attack plot.
Meanwhile, in Turkey, police today seized 24 suicide belts and detained four suspected Islamic State members, the Turkish state news agency said.
Police in Germany said the men – a 27-year-old Algerian and a 23-year-old Nigerian, whose names have not been released – were detained dawn raids this morning in and around Goettingen in central Germany.
Police said both men live in the city and have long been part of the Salafist scene there. Salafists are ultra-conservative Islamists.
About 450 police officers searched twelve properties as part of the operation, including eleven buildings in the city of Göttingen and a house in Nordhessen.
Goettingen police chief Uwe Luehrig said officers took swift action after information about a possible attack plan came to light.
‘We had, in my assessment, absolutely no other option,’ Lührig said
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