Hamburg: Terrorist attack prevented! German Moroccans (20) arrested
https://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/news/hamburg-terror-anschlag-verhindert-deutsch-marokkaner-20-festgenommen-78503602.bild.htmlAs Interior Senator Andy Grote (53, SPD) announced on Friday, a German-Moroccan (20) was arrested in Hamburg on August 26th and has been in custody ever since.
The suspect has a Salafist-Islamist background, said Grote. The 20-year-old tried to buy a Makarov semi-automatic handgun, 50 rounds of ammunition and a hand grenade.
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During the search of an apartment he used in Hamburg-Rahlstedt, chemicals for the construction of an explosive device were found, said Grote - including one kilogram of potassium nitrate, one kilogram of sulfur and half a kilo of charcoal dust as well as several hundred nuts and bolts.
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The person arrested is the German-Moroccan Abdurrahman C. He was born in March 2001 in Hamburg. He is the son of a German mother and a Moroccan father.
Claus Cortnumme, Head of State Security at LKA Hamburg: “The accused's father was involved in the radical Islamist scene in Hamburg in the 2000s. At the time, he was also jointly responsible for the Al-Quds mosque on Steindamm in Hamburg, which had been closed by the security authorities many years ago - and at the time the meeting place for the radical Islamist scene in Hamburg, including the Hamburg 9/11 attackers was. "
The 20-year-old grew up in Hamburg until he was 15. Then his parents moved to Morocco with him in 2016. In November 2020 Abdurrahman C. returned to Hamburg and wanted to start studying in Wismar (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).
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Head of the State Criminal Police Office, Mirko Streiber, described the arrested person as a strict believer who strictly adhered to the rules of Islam. He didn't drink alcohol, looked reserved, and didn't talk to women.