German police have arrested five men in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot to attack targeting a Christmas market in southern Bavaria.

According to the Bild newspaper, three Moroccans aged 22, 28, and 30 were arrested alongside a 37-year-old Syrian and a 56-year-old Egyptian suspected of planning to use a vehicle to attack people at a Christmas market in the town of Dingolfing.

The paper, citing sources within the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV), reported that the Egyptian man is believed to have been a mosque prayer leader. He is accused of recruiting the three Moroccans to carry out an attack on the nearby Christmas market.

Investigators are said to be currently considering radical Islamism as the chief motivation for the suspected pl

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