German police have arrested a 17-year-old teenager who was allegedly planning to carry out a truck-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, according to local media reports.
The young German of Turkish origin had become radicalised, the daily Bild newspaper reported. He was discovered thanks to information supplied by US intelligence.
This would not have been the first such attack in Germany. Almost eight years ago, on 19 December 2016, a lorry ploughed into a crowd at the Berlin Christmas Market. Thirteen people lost their lives. That attack was claimed by the Islamic State, ISIS.
Two years later, a knife-wielding Islamic radical attacked the Strasbourg Christmas Market, killing five people.
