Police ‘foil attack on Stuttgart school’ after swooping to arrest teen pal of Munich gunman Ali Sonboly
German cops find explosives, weapons and building escape plans after tip-off schoolboy, 15, was planning copycat atrocity
COPS in Germany have foiled a plot by a teenager to commit yet another terror attack in the country.
Police raided the home of a 15-year-old schoolboy after receiving a tip-off, finding an array of weapons and explosives.
The suspect had also been in contact with Munich gunman Ali Sonboly, 18, who shot nine people dead in a rampage last Friday.
It is believed he looked up to the deranged killer and planned to carry out a copycat attack on a school in Stuttgart.
Officers are said to have found escape plans for several schools when they swooped on the boy’s home in the Ludwigsburg district of the city.
German magazine Der Spiegel said cops also came across large quantities of chemicals, materials and instructions for making explosives, knives and ammunition for a small calibre firearm.
It’s not thought the boy had any links to ISIS or another Islamic terror group.
Cops said he admitted “preparing an outrage against the background of personal and academic problems”.
The would-be attacker was picked up after a tip-off from an associate who he a boasted of his plans to.
Authorities quickly established a link between him and Sonboly and brought him in.
He is now understood to have been taken to a secure psychiatric unit for young people.
Sonboly is believed to have used Facebook to lure people to a McDonalds before beginning his shooting rampage.
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It has been revealed Sonboly was undergoing psychological treatment for mental illness and was obsessed with mass-shootings.
German investigators say there was an “obvious link” between the Munich attack and far-right Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik.
He was said to be “obsessed” with the mass-killer and had a picture of him as his Whatsapp profile image.
A German prosecutor also revealed he had a book on shootings entitled “Rampage in Head: Why Students Kill” in his bedroom.
The whole of Europe is on high alerts after a recent upsurge in terror atrocities.
France and Germany in particular have been reeling after attacks in Nice, Rouen, Munich, Wurzburg and Ansbach in the last few weeks alone.
All in all, hundreds of people have been killed across the continent in 24 attacks over the last two years.
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