Salafist terror suspect was neo

northeim - The Salafist terror suspect last week in the German town of Northeim was arrested, appears to have a past as a neo-Nazi. Having heard news agency DPA Monday. The 26-year-old Sascha L. converted to Islam and changed his extreme right ideas immediately for jihadist.

The police found in a raid on his house the essentials for making a bomb could be detonated remotely. Unemployed German told during interrogation that he wanted to lure soldiers or policemen ambushed and killed by the explosive.

The suspect came from Berlin and moved two and a half years ago to Northeim in southern Lower Saxony, where he led an unremarkable life. He lived in a studio apartment and had a benefit. How the police got on his trail is still unclear. Is currently being investigated whether he had links with other radical Islamists.