GETTY Yesterday’s arrest took place at an asylum home in the German city of Böblingen

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It is reported that he led police to him after leaving an electronic device with data about his contacts with the Jabhat al-Nusra group - an Isis offshoot - aboard it. The arrest of the 24-year-old unnamed man comes six days after special anti-terror GSG 9 police in the state of Schleswig-Holstein arrested three sleepers of Isis who infiltrated themselves into Germany among the tens of thousands of innocents fleeing war. Yesterday’s arrest took place at an asylum home in Böblingen near Stuttgart.

Officers of the state criminal office seized him in the morning. Local prosecutor Achim Brauneisen has forwarded intelligence on the case to the federal prosecutor, Germany's chief law enforcer, in Karlsruhe. He is being held in custody on suspicion of being a member of a banned terror organisation while his electronic data device is examined by experts for more clues about his contacts and plans.

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GETTY Officials said that he was a fighter with Jabhat al-Nusra

Officials said that they had no intelligence that he was plotting a concrete attack. He arrived in Germany in September last year. Officials said that he was a fighter with Jabhat al-Nusra.

GETTY The fear of terror and the changing nature of German society has eroded support for Angela Merkel