SOLDIER PLOTTED TERROR ATTACK AS REFUGEE: POLICE

Police on Wednesday arrested a German army officer suspected of posing as a Syrian refugee to carry out an attack that would be blamed on migrants.

According to Frankfurt prosecutors, the 28-year-old, whose name wasn’t revealed in accordance with local customs, lived an incredible double life: He registered as a Syrian refugee under a false name at the end of 2015 and subsequently claimed asylum in Bavaria, where he was assigned a place in a refugee shelter and even received benefits.

Austrian authorities had temporarily detained him earlier this year when he attempted to retrieve a loaded gun he had hidden in a restroom at Vienna airport in January. The suspect, who held the rank of a lieutenant colonel, faces charges of plotting a terrorist attack, fraud and violation of gun laws.