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German police arrested three ISIS suspects Thursday alleging to have been working on a plot for long to launch attacks on the city of Dusseldorf.
The top prosecutor of Germany said at least one of the arrested entered the country as a refugee. He is identified as Hamza C and is believed to have joined the militant group in 2014.
Hamza has been taken into custody at a small-town migrant shelter near the Polish border.
According to German prosecutor, the ISIS has been for years seeking to strike the West, but after the two arrested men joined the group the leadership of the group ordered to attack the bustling central pedestrian zone of Dusseldorf.
It is alleged the two plotted to attack one of the main streets of Dusseldorf with two suicide bombings. It is said they were ordered to kill as many passerby as possible with guns and thereafter with suicide explosives.
The arrests to present greater challenge to German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she had readily welcomed the refugees even after critics’ remarks she is exposing Germany to security risks.
Germany is the most populous in EU and its security officials have repeatedly warned they are in the crosshairs of international terrorists.