Terror suspicion: student (16) was probably planning a bloodbath – arrest warrant issued

Created: 05/15/2022, 04:45 am

By: Momir Takac, Patrick Huljina

In Essen, the police probably prevented a bloodbath at a school.

SEK officers overpowered a student while he was sleeping.

He is suspected of being a terrorist.

• A 16-year-old was arrested in Essen early Thursday morning.

• Terror suspicion

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  Essen:

  The student was probably planning an attack at his school.

• Weapons

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  right-wing extremist writings

  : Material for a bomb was found on the young person.

Update from May 14, 7.43 p.m .:

The investigations into the possible prevented attack in a school in Essen continued at high pressure over the weekend.

This was announced by the spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Düsseldorf, Holger Heming.

For reasons of investigation and because of the personal rights of the 16-year-old suspect, he did not want to comment on the content.

In any case, the personal situation and the psychological state of the accused also played a role, he said.

At the Essen grammar school, there will be oral Abitur exams on Monday.

He hopes that the examinees will not be irritated, said Father Otto Nosbisch, the director of the religious institution to which the school in Essen-Borbeck belongs.

Terror suspicion in Essen: Arrest warrant issued against young people

Update from May 13, 3:55 p.m .:

One day after the arrest of a 16-year-old in Essen, an arrest warrant was issued against the young person on Friday (May 13).

This was announced by the public prosecutor's office in Düsseldorf.

The 16-year-old had prepared an attack on the people in the high school he attended this Friday.

A judge sent the German teenager into custody.

The city of Essen probably only narrowly escaped a terrorist attack motivated by right-wing extremists.

The arrest warrant had been requested, among other things, for the preparation of a serious act of violence that endangered the state.

"The fact that the court issued the arrest warrant shows how serious the alleged perpetrator was," said North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Justice Peter Biesenbach (CDU).

It was all the more important that the investigative authorities recognized and averted the danger so early.

The police had come across right-wing extremist writings and materials on bomb construction in the young person's apartment.

Explosives and 16 tubular bodies, some prepared with clocks and nails, were secured, as well as a home-made rifle and crossbows with arrows.

Terror suspicion in Essen: Wüst thanks the police and whistleblowers

Update from May 12, 4:55 p.m .:

The police search of the two schools in Essen has now ended.

No suspicious items were found.

That said a spokesman for the dpa on Thursday afternoon.

Update from May 12, 3:25 p.m .:

After the possible attack in Essen was prevented, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wüst thanked the police and the whistleblower for the attack plans.

The CDU politician said on Thursday that the "attentive action of the population" had been instrumental in preventing the crime.

The emergency services deserve deep recognition for their actions to protect everyone.

The exact background of the fact is still to be clarified, said Wüst.

However, it is already clear that xenophobia, extremism and violence have no place in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to the incumbent NRW Prime Minister.

The state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia are scheduled for the weekend.

Terror suspicion: students (16) probably planned a bloodbath in Essen

Update from May 12, 2 p.m.:

The arrested 16-year-old student from Essen is being investigated on suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence that is dangerous to the state.

The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office responsible for terrorism has taken over the investigation, spokesmen for the authority and the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of the Interior announced on Thursday.

NRW Interior Minister Reul previously stated that the 16-year-old had been arrested in his children's room.

A police special task force gained access to the young person's apartment at 4:20 a.m.

His parents were also found there.

The student is currently being interrogated.

A "whistle-blower" reported to the police, said Reul.

The 16-year-old had previously told him that he wanted to place a bomb in his school.

It is thanks to this whistleblower and the emergency services "that worse things were prevented here."

Essen: Material for a bomb found in a 16-year-old – Reul describes the details

Update from May 12, 1:32 p.m .:

The police discovered material for a bomb to plan an attack on the 16-year-old student in Essen.

The material was functional but not operational, said NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) at a press conference on Thursday.

"This 16-year-old German is under strong suspicion of having planned an attack," Reul continued.

The police found "weapons as well as xenophobic and right-wing extremist material." These included a home-made firearm, a crossbow with arrows, and material for building a bomb.

In addition, "numerous right-wing extremist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim documents" were found.

With their deployment, the police "possibly prevented a nightmare," Reul clarified.

So far, no explosive devices have been found in the schools searched, the Don-Bosco-Gymnasium in Essen-Borbeck and at the secondary school at Borbeck Castle.

"Every corner of the classroom is turned to the left," assured Reul.

A total of 123 officers and ten explosive detection dogs were involved in the operation.

Essen: indications of right-wing tendencies in 16-year-olds – officials ensure stabbing weapons

Update from May 12, 12:25 p.m .:

The police in Essen are investigating possible planned crimes at two schools against a 16-year-old.

"We can confirm that the suspect is a 16-year-old German student at the Don Bosco High School," the police said on Thursday.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Joachim Stamp (FDP), a "suspected Nazi terrorist attack" was prevented, as he announced via Twitter.

The NRW Ministry of the Interior announced a statement from Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) for noon with details of the incident.

According to dpa information, there are indications of right-wing tendencies among the young people.

Accordingly, a manifesto was found in which he omits several people whom he says he hates.

An Essen police spokeswoman told the dpa that the SEK had searched the high school student's apartment early in the morning.

"Various pieces of evidence" were secured, it said.

"But we can't say what it's about at the moment." According to a dpa photo reporter, officials carried stabbing weapons - including spears - out of the house.

They also carried several boxes from the apartment into a van.

Officials secured stabbing weapons in the 16-year-old's apartment.

© David Young/dpa

The police spokeswoman said: "Fortunately nothing happened at the schools.

The direction in which it might have gone is now being determined.” The young person is currently in police custody.

He will be questioned, as will his parents.

The shock of the parents is deep, said a local spokesman.

The youth has not yet appeared with the police.

Bloody deed planned at school?

Police search home of 16-year-old boy

First report from May 12:

Essen – In Essen, the police may have prevented a bloody crime at a school.

In the early morning hours of Thursday, SEK officers stormed an apartment not far from the Don Bosco high school.

As the

reports, a 16-year-old high school student is said to have been overwhelmed in his sleep.

More than ten pipe bombs and a nail bomb are said to have been found on him.

In addition, crossbows and a self-made weapon are said to have been discovered on him.

A police spokesman confirmed to the German Press Agency only one SEK operation in the Borbeck district of Essen.

On Twitter, the Essen police became a little more specific and spoke of a search of the apartment of a student at the Don Bosco high school.

The police apparently received a tip from a young person.

According to the

, he is said to have told the officials that his classmate was planning a bloodbath.

Only recently there had been a large-scale police operation at a Hamburg school.

Essen: Two schools closed due to police operations

In Essen, the police were in action at two schools in the morning with a large contingent.

"A major police operation is currently underway at the Don-Bosco-Gymnasium in Essen-Borbeck," the police wrote on Twitter.

Shortly thereafter, she reported via the short message service: "The police operation also affects the secondary school at Borbeck Castle.

Both schools will initially remain closed today.”

In the Catholic Don Bosco School with almost 800 students, it was only said that an operation was in progress.

No further information can be given.

On the homepage, the high school teaches the families at 7:20 a.m.: "Breaking news.

Unfortunately, school has to be canceled today.

Justifications come later.”