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Five men have been arrested in Germany over a planned terror attack on a Christmas market.
Three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian were arrested on Friday. They are accused of planning to attack a market in Bavaria.
According to prosecutors, the Egyptian is said to have “called for a vehicle attack… with the aim of killing or injuring as many people as possible.”
The Egyptian is believed to be an imam at a local mosque.
The Moroccan men—aged 22, 28 and 30—were accused of agreeing to commit murder, while the Syrian man is accused of encouraging the crime.
Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria’s state interior minister, said the “excellent cooperation between our security services” had helped to prevent “a potentially Islamist-motivated attack.”
Christmas markets have been a target for attacks for almost a decade, since an attack on a Berlin market in 2016, when a man drove a lorry into a crowd, killing 12.
An attack on a market in Magdeburg last year killed six.
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