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Police officers in front of the Taqwa Mosque in the Harburg district of Hamburg in 2016: Abdurrahman C. is said to have prayed there regularly
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The proceedings against the alleged jihadist Abdurrahman C., who is said to have planned a terrorist attack, are "of particular importance" and will therefore be taken over by the federal prosecutor, as a spokesman for the authority confirmed.
With the seized materials, a terrorist attack would have been possible, which could have resulted in many victims, it said.
Abdurrahman C. is being investigated on suspicion of the preparation of a serious, state-endangering act of violence and an alleged violation of the War Weapons Control Act.
The Hamburg police reported on Friday about the apparently foiled terrorist attack.
The 20-year-old German-Moroccan C. tried, among other things, to buy a weapon and a hand grenade on the Darknet.
During a search of an apartment used by C. the investigators discovered chemicals for the construction of a potentially fatal explosive device in mid-November: one kilo of potassium nitrate, one kilogram of sulfur, half a kilo of charcoal dust, hundreds of bolts and nuts, plus other bomb components.
Before the investigation, C. was known to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as an extended contact with Hamburg Islamists.
However, C. was not considered the protagonist of the scene.
According to SPIEGEL information, his father was known to Islamists from the environment of the 9/11 attackers.
C's father was also jointly responsible for the notorious Al-Quds mosque on Hamburg's Steindamm, where the pilots who died on September 11, 2001, had prayed.
It has now been closed by the security authorities.
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