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		</div><p>A Syrian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of seeking 180,000 euro (£153,000) from the Islamic State group to buy vehicles that he intended to use for one or several bomb attacks, authorities said.</p>
<p>The 38-year-old, who came to Germany in late 2014 as an asylum-seeker, was arrested on Saturday in Saarbruecken, close to the French border. He is accused of collecting money to be used by him or someone else to carry out murder.</p>
<p>Prosecutors accuse him of contacting someone in Syria <i>&#8220;who he knew was in a position to obtain IS money for terror financing&#8221;</i> last month via the Telegram encrypted communication service.</p>
<p>The suspect allegedly asked for 180,000 euro so that he could buy and repaint vehicles that he intended to fit out with explosives before driving them into crowds.</p>
<p>The case against him was bolstered by an informant who went to Germany&#8217;s Federal Criminal Police Office, chats on the suspect&#8217;s smartphone and his own statements, &#8220;insofar as they can be followed&#8221;, prosecutors said in a statement.</p>
<p>The Syrian is alleged to have told the financier that each vehicle would cost 22,500 euro (£19,000), and that 400 to 500 kilograms of explosives would be placed in each car, they added.</p>
<p>Police said in a separate statement that the man had sought IS financing for an <i>&#8220;as yet unsubstantiated attack scenario with the help of prepared vehicles in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>In questioning, the man acknowledged that he had been in contact with IS, but denied &#8220;terrorist intentions&#8221;, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>Investigators have found no evidence that he already had vehicles fitted out to conduct attacks. Police said that a search of his apartment turned up no evidence of any concrete danger to New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations.</p>
<p>Germany saw three attacks last year claimed by IS and carried out by asylum-seekers &#8211; two in Bavaria in the summer, in which the assailants were killed and a total of 20 people wounded, and the December 19 lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market in which 12 people were killed.</p>
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