2 ISIS Members Arrested In Germany, Plans To Attack Sweden's Parliament

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JAKARTA - Two people involved in the Islamic State group were arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a gun attack on Swedish parliament.

The German Federal Prosecutor's Office said the two people arrested were Afghans. The arrests were made near the city of Gera, Thuringia, Germany.

Reported by CNN, Saturday, March 23, German Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said one of those arrested was a member of the ISIS terror group, and another suspected of supporting it.

The Afghan Embassy in Berlin told CNN they had not received any communication on the matter from German federal authorities, and said they were ready to cooperate if needed.

"The embassy... condemns, firmly, all ideologies and acts of violence and terrorism in all its forms," he added in a statement.

According to the German Federal Prosecutor's Office, the suspects received instructions to carry out the alleged planned attack from the ISIS branch in the summer of 2023.

The attack was intended in retaliation for the burning of the Koran that occurred in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries at the time, prosecutors said. Police officers were among those targeted.

The two detainees made "real preparations" for the terror attack and failed to get weapons, the statement said. They are also researching local conditions in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, where the attack should have occurred, he continued.