Two ‘ISIS-inspired’ teenagers aged 15 and 17 arrested in Germany for plotting bomb or gun attack on public

TWO teenagers have been arrested in Germany on suspicion that they were planning an Islamic extremist attack.

State prosecutors in Karlsruhe said the two Germans, ages 15 and 17, were arrested on Thursday.

Prosecutors said the two were suspected of trying to procure firearms for a possible attack on an unidentified public facility in the Aschaffenburg area, southeast of Frankfurt.

Terror cops seized Islamic extremist propaganda, flags of the Islamic State group and cellphones.

They found no firearms.

There is no evidence the suspects would have been able to carry out their plan.

But they were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit an attack.

Police said they'll now investigate how serious the plan was and added that there are indications the two are mentally ill.
Germany has been on high alert in recent months following a series of atrocities last summer.

The wave of attacks including two in the southern state of Bavaria that were both claimed by ISIS.

In one of them a 17-year-old Afghani attacked train passengers in Wurzburg with an axe before being shot dead by cops.

A week later an attacker detonated a bomb outside a cafe in Ansbach, killing himself and wounding 12 others.

Meanwhile in The Netherlands a ‘terror suspect’ with a loaded kalashnikov AK-47 rifle with two full magazines and a painting of the ISIS flag has been arrested in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

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