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1. Special units of the federal police detained a Syrian man in his Berlin apartment early on Tuesday morning on charges of preparing a text aimed at committing a terrorist act threatening the state, prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors also said that the suspect began purchasing "the necessary components and chemicals to make an explosive device."&"with the intention of killing as many people as possible.

"It was intended to detonate at an unknown point in time and at an unknown location in Germany," they added.

In August, he purchased hydrogen peroxide and acetone, two chemicals that were used to synthesize the high explosive TATP.



Under surveillance

Berlin prosecutors said that since the beginning of 2019, the Syrian has been observed nine times in an electronic message group associated with the terrorist group "Islamic State" (IG).

His favorite topics included instructions on plastic explosives, packet and magnetic bombs, and booby-trapped explosives, followed by Kalashnikov k-47 assault rifles and machine guns.

The suspect worked as a cleaner at an elementary school in Berlin and had been under surveillance since the beginning of this year, according to Andreas Geisel, senator of the interior of the city-state of Berlin.

The Berliner Zeitung daily newspaper reported that the suspect lived near the town hall in Berlin's Schoeneberg district.

Before working at school, he worked at the famous Berlin Bode Museum.




2. A French surgeon may have sexually abused up to 250 children, investigators said on Monday.

A retired surgeon has been accused of rape and sexual abuse of minors during his 30-year practice in Western France.

The former surgeon has been detained since May 2017, when he was accused of sexually abusing four minors, including his neighbor's six-year-old daughter, between 1989 and 2017.

A secondary procedure was then carried out, as a result of which up to 250 victims were identified. According to the prosecutor, about 209 people were interviewed, many of whom reported "specific memories".

Approximately 184 people subsequently expressed a desire to file a complaint, and 181 of them were minors at the time of the alleged offenses.

The surgeon allegedly wrote down the names of little boys and girls in personal notebooks in which he described sexual acts and fantasies. A search of the medic's house revealed child pornography, dolls and wigs hidden in the floor. gerçekten hoşuma gitti başarıbet Çünkü burada gerçek parayla oynayabilirsiniz.