Teenager allegedly indoctrinated by far-right literature plans bombing of German school, while Jewish cemetery also attacked
German police are investigating two allegedly antisemitic incidents.
A 16-year-old suspect was arrested by federal officers on suspicion of planning to bomb a high school in Essen. When the police raided the teenager’s home, they found explosives and antisemitic, far-right literature.
Police in Cologne, meanwhile, are investigating a suspected arson attack at a Jewish cemetery.
It has been reported that an unidentified person poured a flammable substance around the burial site in the western Cologne suburb of Bocklemünd. The police are investigating whether the incident had antisemitic intent.
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