Germany has expelled two German-born Islamist extremists.
In the first case of its kind, the pair are to be deported despite their strong claim to the country.
They have not been named by authorities but they are known to hold foreign citizenship. One, aged 22, is of Nigerian origin and the other, aged 27, is of Algerian origin.
The men were arrested in the city of Göttingen last month during an investigation into a suspected planned terrorist attack. Police said they found two weapons, ammunition, a machete and Islamic State flags.
The state government of Lower Saxony ordered their deportation after the federal administrative court rejected an appeal. They will be banned for life from returning to Germany.
Boris Pistorius, the state interior minister, said: “This is a clear signal to all fanatics that we will not leave them one centimetre for their inhuman plans,”
The men were deported under measures brought in after 9/11. Germany has been hit by several terrorist incidents over the last year, most notably in December when a Muslim fanatic drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.
Angela Merkel has come in for mounting public criticism over her decision to allow about a million immigrants from the Middle East and Africa to settle in Germany in 2015 and 2016 because of the security risk it poses.