German authorities said on Sunday they had arrested a 22-year-old Syrian man in Berlin suspected of preparing a “jihadist” attack, without giving details of the alleged plot.
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The suspect, arrested on Saturday in the capital’s southern Neukoelln district, was being kept in a detention centre and was to be brought before an investigating judge later on Sunday.
He was alleged to have plotted “a jihadist-motivated attack”, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Berlin told Agence France-Presse.
He was being held on suspicion of preparing an act of a serious nature that would put the country in danger, the spokesman said.
Bild reported that a search by special police units of three Berlin residential addresses linked to the suspect turned up items that could be used to build explosives.
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The newspaper said the alleged plot was thought to be an attack in Berlin but that no other details had yet emerged.