"Investigations conducted thus far have found no evidence of a concrete threat," the state's interior ministry said in a statement.
The man, who was arrested in the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate, remains in police custody, according to the statement.
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group in the southwestern town of Mutterstadt. The state interior ministry of Rhineland Palatinate, where Mutterstadt is located, could not immediately be reached for comment.
The German news agency dpa reported Tuesday that the man, whose identity was not given, was detained after a tip from a prison inmate in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. Dpa reported the information about the suspect came in connection with alleged threats against the German Bundesliga soccer league. It did not further elaborate the threat.
Sister's tip led to Bulgaria arrest of French jihadi suspect
[Ynet] The arrest in Bulgaria of a French citizen with ties to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...satirical newspaper in Gay Paree followed a tip from his sister, new details showed Tuesday. The arrest warrant issued by a French court for Mourad Hamyd was based on his sister Khadija's report to police that her brother had boarded a train via Hungary and Serbia to Bulgaria, even though he had told her he would travel to Morocco.
"This route corresponds with the route that is usually chosen by the jihadist volunteers that want to join the Islamic State group in Syria or Iraq," said the arrest warrant, which was made available to the AP Tuesday.
Frenchman gets maximum jail term for visiting Islamist sites
[Ynet] A French court has given a convert to Islam the maximum two-year jail term for repeatedly visiting myrmidon websites that incite people to commit attacks and show beheading videos. His lawyer said Tuesday that the court in Chartres, south-west of Gay Paree, set a sentence was double what the prosecutor recommended a day earlier. Yannick Loichot, 31, acknowledged he visited dozens of Islamist websites but claimed he did it just "out of curiosity," his lawyer Gregory Martin-Dit-Neuville said in a phone interview. He won't file appeal.