Man planning attack on Israeli embassy was rejected asylum-seeker

The Islamic State supporter plotting an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin is a Libyan who has had his application for asylum rejected, dpa has learned.

According to a report in the mass-circulation Bild newspaper, the man entered Germany in November 2022, applying for asylum in January the following year. This was rejected eight months later, and the man has not appealed against the ruling.

While there is no general block on deportations from Germany to Libya, enforcing deportation is difficult as a result of a lack of functioning state structures in the North African country.