BERLIN, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Four weeks after a canceled international game in Hanover due to a terror threat, German special police forces searched the apartment of a suspect, German media reported Friday.
The police searched an apartment rented to a woman and her son for three hours on Friday morning on behalf of Germany's Attorney General's office, the German newspaper Hanoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) reported. The police took the young man for questioning.
"The accused is alleged to have planned together with other unspecified people an attack on the international football match on Nov. 17 in Hanover," said the Attorney General's office.
Spiegel Online reported investigators discovered a suspicious video taken on the evening of Nov. 17 at the stadium.
The 10-second clip showed a young man in a steward's vest of the German Football Association, speaking several sentences an empty stadium.
According to an earlier report, the 19-year-old student had occasionally worked as a steward in the stadium in Hanover.
His teacher was reported to have said, the young man planned to go to Syria.
However, the suspicion that the young man had been involved in planning for a terrorist attack "could not be substantiated" so far, according to the Attorney General's office.
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German police search apartment in connection with canceled football match
English.news.cn 2015-12-11 22:18:38
BERLIN, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Four weeks after a canceled international game in Hanover due to a terror threat, German special police forces searched the apartment of a suspect, German media reported Friday.
The police searched an apartment rented to a woman and her son for three hours on Friday morning on behalf of Germany's Attorney General's office, the German newspaper Hanoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) reported. The police took the young man for questioning.
"The accused is alleged to have planned together with other unspecified people an attack on the international football match on Nov. 17 in Hanover," said the Attorney General's office.
Spiegel Online reported investigators discovered a suspicious video taken on the evening of Nov. 17 at the stadium.
The 10-second clip showed a young man in a steward's vest of the German Football Association, speaking several sentences an empty stadium.
According to an earlier report, the 19-year-old student had occasionally worked as a steward in the stadium in Hanover.
His teacher was reported to have said, the young man planned to go to Syria.
However, the suspicion that the young man had been involved in planning for a terrorist attack "could not be substantiated" so far, according to the Attorney General's office.
