This morning, the German authorities arrested a person accused of planning a terrorist attack in the city of Castro, Brussels, after a friendly intelligence agency reported the man.
 
The Public Prosecutor in Dusseldorf said that the man was in possession of toxic substances such as cyanide and ricin, which are officially included in Germany as biological weapons, as it is possible that a bomb packed with steel balls and ricin could have killed 200 people.
 
The German newspaper Bild reported that employees of the Federal Disease Control Authority, the Robert Koch Institute and the Federal Criminal Police were involved in the incident, but investigations have not yet revealed details.
 
Wearing protective suits, investigators surrounded the accused's home at around midnight Saturday to search the residence of the 32-year-old in Kastrup-Rauxel, about 15 kilometers northwest of Dortmund, a report on the regional public broadcaster WDR said.
 
A wide area around the site was cordoned off as a large contingent of police officers, firefighters and emergency services were deployed to the site, and evidence was placed in blue bins and taken to a decontamination site set up by the fire services.
 
Investigators said the defendant was planning with others to commit serious violence that endangered the state, and the FBI had been monitoring the man for days, after receiving a warning from a "friendly intelligence agency".

Source: The Seventh Day website