The man was seized Wednesday in a raid in the Lower Saxony town of Northeim

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The man was seized Wednesday in a raid in the Lower Saxony town of Northeim.

He is a German national said to be active in the radical Salfist scene.

The allegedly told police after his arrest: "I wanted to slay them with it."