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Germany

Police arrest Syrian bomb plot suspect

A Syrian refugee arrested in Germany after explosives were found in a flat in the city of Chemnitz was planning to carry out attacks similar in scale to those in Brussels in March and in Paris last year, the German interior minister said on Monday. Joerg Michaelis, president of the Saxony state criminal investigation office, said 22-year-old Jaber Albakr was most likely inspired by Islamic State. "The behavior of the suspect speaks for an IS context," he said.