China News Agency, Berlin, June 8 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The Prosecutor in Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany said on the 8th that a 21-year-old man threatened to follow the example of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand to attack Muslims Has been arrested. The state's counterterrorism department is currently investigating the case.
According to the information released by Celle's prosecutor that day, the suspect was a 21-year-old man from Hildesheim, Germany. On the 5th of this month, it claimed on an anonymous online chat platform that it would launch an attack that killed many people. The police subsequently arrested the man.
According to the information currently available to the prosecution, the suspects had a very early idea of launching an attack that could kill many people. The motive was to attract international media attention.
In the chat record on the 5th of this month, the suspect mentioned the murderer of the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand on March 15, 2019. He expressed the hope that he would follow the example of the New Zealand gunman who had killed 51 people and commit murders against Muslims. When the police searched their residence, they found a weapon suspected of being used in the crime, and the storage device found together contained far-right content.
At present, the Lüneburg District Court has issued an arrest warrant against the suspect for allegedly endangering public order and financing terrorism by threatening to commit criminal offences. The case is being investigated by the Central Counter-Terrorism Office in Celle. (Finish)