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(Jewish Group) Explosives, antisemitic literature found at home of German teenager suspected of plan
Explosives, antisemitic literature found at home of German teenager suspected of planning school attackGerman police found explosives and antisemitic, far-right literature at the home of a teenager they suspect of planning a terrorist attack at a school.
Federal officers took the 16-year-old suspect, who was not named in the German media, into custody on Thursday, the Tagesschau news site reported. He is suspected of planning to bomb a high school in Essen, a city about 250 miles west of Berlin.
Separately, German police are investigating a suspected arson at a Jewish cemetery near Cologne. Both incidents closely followed the release of a report indicating a 28% rise in antisemitic hate crimes in 2021.
In the incident in Cologne on Wednesday evening, an unidentified person poured a flammable substance on the wall around the Jewish cemetery of Bocklemünd, a western suburb of Cologne, Rundschau Online reported. Police are investigating whether the incident was an antisemitic hate crime, the report said.
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Maybe he is just "misunderstood" and his anti-Semitism is really the fault of a Jew he once met or saw on TV.
