Three individuals, comprising two female adolescents aged 15 and 16, along with a 15-year-old male, hailing from different locales within the western region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, were apprehended subsequent to the issuance of warrants by a court during the Easter weekend, as disclosed by prosecutors in Duesseldorf. Additionally, a fourth individual, a 16-year-old male, was apprehended in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, as reported by the German news agency dpa. The trio detained in western Germany are under suspicion of avowing readiness to execute an “Islamist-motivated terror attack” and orchestrating such a scheme, as outlined by prosecutors in an official statement. They refrained from divulging the extent of the plans and cited constraints due to the suspects’ juvenile status and the ongoing investigative process. They are presently detained pending potential charges related to the declaration of intent to commit murder and manslaughter, as well as preparation for a significant act of violence.Herbert Reul, the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, emphasized that the investigation was instigated following suspicions regarding the 16-year-old girl’s intentions to depart Germany to join the Islamic State group. Conversations retrieved from her mobile device, discussing potential targets including Dortmund, Duesseldorf, or Cologne, as well as religious institutions such as churches and synagogues in her hometown of Iserlohn, served as leads for investigators, according to dpa. While security sources, who chose to remain anonymous, revealed that the teenagers had yet to formulate a detailed plan encompassing time and location for the purported attack.