A man who was born in Germany but of Nigerian parentage and suspected of being affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has been deported to Nigeria.
His age was put at 22.
Though he had not committed any offence, but based on suspicion that he was planning terrorists activities alongside an Algerian, both of them were deported.
Reports by dpa said the suspected terrorist was brought into the country on Thursday.
He was one of two detained in February in Goettingen during an investigation of suspected attack plans.
His partner is a 27 year-old Algerian.
Both of them lived with their parents in Göttingen.
When the two men were picked up, investigators found two weapons, at least one of them a firearm, that had been altered to fire live ammunition.
Also found were ammunition, flags of the Islamic State group and a machete.
The man deported to Nigeria is banned from entering Germany for life.
Following attacks by Islamic extremists last year, German authorities vowed to step up deportations of foreigners deemed to be threats.
The two men, according to www.dw.com were arrested after being under surveillance for some time.
After their arrest, the German interior ministry requested their expulsion after classifying them as a threat to national security.
Their deportation has no precedence in German history.
“We are sending a clear warning to all fanatics nationwide that we will not give them a centimeter of space to carry out their despicable plans,” said Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister, Boris Pistorius, following the court ruling authorising the deportation.
“They will face the full force of the law regardless of whether they were born here or not,” Pistorius added.
In the case of the Algerian, the court made his deportation conditional on assurances from the Algerian government that he would not be tortured or subjected to any inhuman treatment.
Prosecutors concluded that the two had discussed an attack plan, but had no concrete plans to carry one out.
Nevertheless, the government decided to deport them, relying for the first time on measures that were part of tightened anti-terrorism laws passed after the September 11 attacks in the US.
Following two previous ISIS-inspired terror attacks that hit Germany in July, the interior minister drew up proposals to boost security, including a new focus on deporting foreigners deemed dangerous and stripping dual nationals who fight for extremist groups of their German citizenship.
After the Berlin attack, the government proposed further measures to toughen the rules on deporting such individuals and on monitoring extremists.
It would be the first time German-born terror suspects are deported from Germany, following a series of cases against foreign citizens including asylum seekers who have arrived since the start of the refugee crisis.
Angela Merkel’s government was criticised for failing to remove terror suspects swiftly enough after revelations an attempt to deport the ISIS supporter who killed 12 people in the Berlin Christmas market attack had failed.
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