Moroccan asylum seeker suspect arrested for planning terror attack in Austria

Austrian police arrested the Moroccan asylum seeker in a daybreak raid yesterday
The 25-year-old was dwelling in a centre for asylum seekers in Fuschl am See
He's accused of planning an assault within the metropolis of Salzburg earlier than the New Yr
Police have searched his room however haven't discovered any weapons or explosives

By Darren Boyle for MailOnline

Revealed: 20:54 EST, 20 December 2016 | Up to date: 21:15 EST, 20 December 2016

Austrian police have arrested a 25-year-old asylum seeker from Morocco on suspicion of planning an assault through the vacation season within the metropolis of Salzburg, prosecutors stated on Tuesday.

A search on Monday of an lodging centre for asylum seekers within the city of Fuschl am See, the place the person was dwelling, discovered 'no supplies clearly required for the execution of an assault', the Salzburg prosecutors' workplace stated in an announcement.

It couldn't, nevertheless, be dominated out that he was planning an assault, a spokesman added. The formal accusation in opposition to the suspect is that he belongs to an unspecified 'terrorist organisation'.

Austrian police have arrested a failed Moroccan asylum seeker within the city of Fuschl am See who was allegedly planning a terrorist assault through the vacation season

Independently of the arrest, Austria is deploying extra police at busy public locations and tightening different safety measures in response to Monday's assault on a Christmas market in Berlin wherein 12 folks have been killed.

'The police have been knowledgeable in current months that unidentified males had mentioned an alleged terrorist assault in Salzburg within the interval round Christmas/New Yr,' the prosecutors' workplace stated, describing the Moroccan as the principle suspect.

Salzburg, close to Austria's border with Germany, is likely one of the nation's fundamental vacationer centres, well-known because the birthplace of Mozart and recognized for its Christmas market.