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Wednesday, January 31, 2018
German court clears Algerian in IS attack plot trial
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA German court Wednesday clears the second of three defendants in an alleged Islamic State group attack plot after a former suspect was released late last year.
The tribunal has been investigating an alleged plan for coordinated jihadist gun attacks and suicide bombings in the old town center of the western city of Düsseldorf.
However, the court released a 29-year-old Algerian man, who was identified only as Hamza C. in keeping with privacy rules, citing a lack of evidence against him.
It had last month released the co-accused Jordanian Mahmood B. on similar grounds.
The case was launched after the Syrian Saleh A. went into a Paris police station two years ago and told officers about what he said was a “sleeper cell” ready to strike in Germany.
— AFP
The Times of Israel Community.