German investigators were searching today for 10 suspects in connection with a foiled terrorist attack on German and American targets by Islamic militants, officials said.
Joerg Ziercke, the head of Germany's Federal Crime Office, left, and German federal prosecutor Monika Harms at press conference in Karlsruhe Wednesday with hydrogen peroxide seized from the suspects.
The suspects are believed to have provided support to the three main suspects in the plot, according to August Hanning, the deputy interior minister and a former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the B.N.D. Their arrests were announced Wednesday, a day after they were captured in a raid in western Germany.
While some of the suspect still at large are believed to still be in Germany, Mr. Hanning said the arrests Tuesday had ended the security threat.
“There is no danger coming from this concrete cell,” he told German television station ARD on Thursday. But he also warned that Germany remained a target for Islamic terrorists and in that sense the risk remained high.
Security services were “concerned” about what he described as “the order to undertake attacks in Germany,” Mr. Hanning said.
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