In connection with the foiled suspected terrorist attack on a high school in Essen, a second person has been targeted by the investigators. On Monday evening around 8 p.m., the police temporarily arrested a young adult, said a spokesman for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. However, he is now free again.
The man was noticed during the investigation and was suspected of violating the weapons law, the spokesman said. Weapons were also secured in his apartment on Wüstenhöferstraße in the Borbeck district, “but according to the current state of investigation they are not sharp”. The spokesman did not want to say which weapons were involved.
According to information from picturenewspaper, the apartment was stormed by a special task force, and explosives detection dogs were also used. The young man was taken away in handcuffs.
Wüstenhöferstraße is about a kilometer away from the Don Bosco High School, where a 16-year-old arrested on Thursday allegedly wanted to carry out a terrorist attack motivated by right-wing extremists. Teachers and a large number of students were to be killed. In the student’s apartment, the investigators came across right-wing extremist writings, bomb-making materials, a self-made rifle and crossbows with arrows. A knuckleduster, a knuckleduster knife and a machete were also discovered on him, reported the federal prosecutor, who took over the investigation.
A report of West German General Newspaper The young adult who has now been arrested is said to have exchanged chat messages with the 16-year-old about bombs and attacks. This caught the attention of the authorities. However, the police spokesman declined to comment.
School is starting again
Meanwhile, some normalcy returned to the affected Don Bosco High School in Essen on Monday. The oral Abitur exams began as planned. Two security guards were posted at the entrance to the school grounds.
This Tuesday, the approximately 800 students should return to the classes and courses, according to the school’s website. In the first lesson, the class communities are given the opportunity to discuss what has happened with each other.
After that, all students, including the teaching staff, should come together on the sports field to “set a common sign of peaceful coexistence”. In addition, the school psychological service of the city of Essen is available. Class tests and exams do not take place on Tuesday.