German police arrest suspect in foiled plot to kidnap health minister

FILE PHOTO: German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach attends a news conference to report on current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in Berlin, Germany September 30,2022. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have arrested a woman suspected of having been involved in a plot to kidnap health minister Karl Lauterbach earlier this year, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.

The woman, a German national identified by police only as Elisabeth R., is suspected of having been ringleader of a radical group that plotted to kidnap Lauterbach and destroy power facilities to cause a nationwide power outage, the prosecutors said in a statement.