German authorities arrest Libyan suspected of planning attack on Israeli embassy

Police officers escort the man in Karlsruhe (Rene Priebe/dpa/AP)

German authorities said on Sunday that they have arrested a Libyan national with suspected ties to the extremist so-called Islamic State group who was allegedly planning a firearms attack on the Israeli embassy.

Police and other security forces detained the man on Saturday in Bernau, a town just outside Berlin, and searched his home there, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said.