German news agency DPA reported in February that some suspects were arrested in the city of Goettingen while perfecting plans to attack parts of the European country.
The German government has decided to deport a Nigerian and an Algerian that police there say they suspect to be members of a radical Islamist group in Gottingen city.
Although both the two African men were born and bred in Germany, the central European country has resolved to deport both of them to their ancestral ‘homes’ in Africa.
Germany’s international broadcast medium Deutsche Welle (DW) reports that the 27-year-old Algerian and 22-year-old Nigerian, who were arrested in February while plotting to carry out what police said was a “potentially imminent terror attack”, would now be sent ‘home’.
DW said the regional interior ministry had requested the pair’s expulsion after classifying them as a threat to national security and on March 21, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig agreed that they should be deported.
The two are in good position to win a reprieve, the report said since they had not yet committed serious crimes but German news agency dpa quoted a ministry spokesman as saying that this is the first time in Germany’s history that such a decision had been taken.
“We are sending a clear warning to all fanatics nationwide that we will not give them a centimetre of space to carry out their despicable plans.
“They will face the full force of the law regardless of whether they were born here or not,” said Lower Saxony’s interior minister Boris Pistorius following the court ruling.
A separate report in The Independent said that the men, who hold Nigerian and Algerian citizenship through their parents, will be deported back to Africa before Easter and could also be banned from returning to Germany for life.
The two men, who had been under surveillance for some time due to their alleged support for Islamic State lived with their parents in Göttingen.
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