An Iranian was suspected of manufacturing poisons for an assassination attempt. Police action was initially in vain. Investigators could not yet say whether the cyanide and ricin could be stored elsewhere.
Castrop-Rauxel/Dusseldorf/Berlin. One of the biggest police operations in Germany to date due to a suspected terrorist threat took a very special turn on Sunday: during the search of an apartment or house in the town of Castrop-Rauxel near Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia), where large quantities of poison after an Islamically motivated attack, after hours of searching, nothing of the kind was found. So said a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Düsseldorf on Sunday afternoon. However, the main suspect and a second person were still in police custody. The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Düsseldorf confirmed late on Sunday that it had sought arrest warrants against two Iranian men aged 32 and 25.
Specifically, there was a suspicion that a 32-year-old Iranian man had acquired large amounts of the substances cyanide and ricin for an attack. Investigators could not say for now whether these poisons might be stored elsewhere.