© European Press AgencyGerman police (file picture) have arrested a Syrian man in Berlin suspected of plotting a terror attack on a city airport, it has emerged
The suspect, who has been allegedly living in Germany since 2015, was arrested Berlin's Schöneberg district, police wrote on Twitter.
"[The] man.... is suspected of being a member of a foreign terrorist organization," police said.
According to Focus Online newspaper, the man is considered "highly dangerous."
"We have launched an investigation and we are now waiting to see what the search of [his] apartment gives," a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor told FOCUS Online.
Die Welt named the suspect as Ashraf Al-T, citing its sources.
Berlin's security services describe the man as "a second Jaber Albakr." Albakr was a 22-year-old Syrian suspected of plotting a bomb attack on Berlin's airport, who was arrested in October of this year and committed suicide while in prison.
Germany has been on high alert in recent months. In July of this year, the country faced three lone-wolf assaults. In all cases, the perpetrators either had direct links to IS or were inspired by radicalism.
In September, two improvised bombs went off in the city of Dresden that targeted a mosque and an international conference center. No one was injured, although the mosque was severely damaged.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere warned in September that there were more people in Germany who could potentially commit terrorist acts than ever before. According to the minister's data, more than 520 people in Germany are capable of committing "unexpected" and potentially "high-profile" terrorist attacks inspired by Islamism.
In October German police conducted several raids in five federal states in response to an "imminent terror threat."
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