TEK Director-General: Intelligence Warranted Arrest of Suspected Terrorist
Further details have surfaced on the 21-year-old man, identifying as an Islamist, who was captured by operators of Hungary’s Counter Terrorism Center (TEK) at his residence in Kecskemét on Tuesday after he was suspected of preparing a terror attack. The authorities had been monitoring his activity after he began participating in online forums affiliated with the militant Islamic State.
János Hajdu, Director-General of TEK, said that the man “wanted to cause an explosion at a large group event, and had been planning to crash into a large mass of people in Hungary.”