{"id":256162,"date":"2016-10-08T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256162"},"modified":"2016-10-08T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:16:10","slug":"bomb-suspect-hunted-by-german-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=256162","title":{"rendered":"Bomb suspect hunted by German police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Police in the eastern German city of Chemnitz have launched a manhunt for a suspect believed to be planning a bomb attack.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on a tip-off from the domestic intelligence service, they raided an apartment but failed to find the man.<\/p>\n<p>Traces of explosives were found at the property, a police spokesman said. Local residents have been warned to stay indoors as officers comb the area.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been named as Jaber Alkadr, 22, who was born in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;where, when, how and why&#8221; of the planned attack remained unknown according to Tom Bernhardt, a spokesman for the Saxony state criminal investigation office.<\/p>\n<p>Saxony police have released pictures of the Damascus-born suspect wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt with a colourful print.<\/p>\n<p>They have not provided any information about how long he had been in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>They have urged anyone with information about him to come forward.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/B22D\/production\/_91631654_d15ec1cc-efca-4df7-aa8f-06c9c534aef5.jpg\" alt=\"Tweet from Saxony police reads, in English: Currently running a large scale operation in ~Chemnitz because of the suspicion of a planned bomb attack\" width=\"976\" height=\"300\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">@POLIZEISACHSEN<\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s popularity has waned since her decision to open the borders to refugees and migrants last year, admitting more than a million people, many of them Syrian.<\/p>\n<p>In July, an axe attack on a train near Wuerzburg and a suicide bombing in Ansbach wounded 20 people and were claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the eastern German city of Chemnitz have launched a manhunt for a suspect believed to be planning a bomb attack. Acting on a tip-off from the domestic intelligence service, they raided an apartment but failed to find the man. Traces of explosives were found at the property, a police spokesman said. Local residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":256163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}