German man arrested after explosives found in apartment

Police in Eisenhüttenstadt on Wednesday.

“There are suspicions that an explosive attack was being prepared”, says a spokeswoman for the regional government of Brandenburg.

Dietmar Woidke, official of state of Brandenburg, had confirmed to German media the arrest of a terrorist suspect in the eastern German city of Eisenhuttenstadt near the border with Poland.

German police on Wednesday arrested a 27-year-old convert to Islam on fears he was planning a bomb attack, but later said they found no evidence to back the suspicion.

Officers only found pyrotechnical products in the apartment and the man was still being questioned, he said.

In two other attacks Islamic extremism is not suspected. The three-day festival is scheduled for August 26 to 28.

In Wuerzburg, the 17-year-old attacker was shot dead by police after injuring five people.

Authorities with detection dogs arrested a German national and swept his home for explosives.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s internal spy service, believes there are more than 43,000 people in the country who are involved in the Islamist scene.