A 29-year-old Muslim from Tunisia is being charged with planning to launch a biological weapon attack after being caught with ricin. According to the report, he’d successfully made the toxin after ordering caster beans online:
NY POST – German prosecutors said Thursday they’ve thwarted an Islamic extremist plot to launch an attack with the deadly toxin ricin.
They said a 29-year-old Tunisian, identified only as Sief Allah H., who was arrested Wednesday, started procuring material online including seeds needed for the creation of ricin in mid-May.
The suspect succeeded in creating the toxin this month and investigators found it in a search of his Cologne apartment, federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe said in a written statement.
“He procured 1,000 castor bean seeds online as well as an electronic coffee grinder,” they said. The shell of the castor bean plant seed is highly poisonous and can be used to create ricin.
The authorities are still investigating exactly how the suspect planned to use the toxin, but said he was working on a “biological weapon” attack in Germany.
Prosecutors said they currently have no evidence of a connection with any extremist organization.
Except that it’s also being reported that he used ISIS instructions on how to make the deadly poison. It’s also being reported that it was American intelligence who tipped off the Germans.
Bild Magazine says he had stored large quantities of the poison in his apartment. He also had a wife and four children. The wife, who is German, had converted to Islam.
The report doesn’t even give his last name, which makes me wonder if the German authorities don’t want the people to know how this Tunisian came into the country.