CNA Newsroom, Apr 12, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
German authorities have reported the arrest of four suspects allegedly planning terror attacks in Germany. According to Bild newspaper, the group intended to target Christians attending church services and police stations with knives and Molotov cocktails.
The Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office revealed that the suspects, who are between 15 and 16 years old, were apprehended over the Easter weekend.
“The suspects are strongly suspected of having planned an Islamist-motivated terrorist attack and of having agreed to commit it,” authorities stated, as reported by CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.
The arrests were conducted following an investigation by the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the anti-terror unit, ZenTer NRW. North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister, Herbert Reul, detailed the case at a press conference in Düsseldorf on Thursday, noting that the suspected terror plans were “quickly and purposefully thwarted.”
Reul mentioned that it took only five days from the initial findings by German security authorities to the arrest. “We succeeded in preventing worse things from happening,” he stated, as quoted by FAZ newspaper.
These arrests are not isolated incidents. In November 2023, two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. They reportedly sympathized with the Islamic State and were believed to have planned a Christmas market attack using a vehicle, CNA Deutsch reported.
In December and early January, several of Europe’s most renowned cathedrals, including those in Cologne and Vienna, were on high alert due to concerns about a planned attack for New Year’s Eve. Authorities detained but later released three suspects; the men were reportedly members of the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), the same group linked to the March 25 Moscow concert hall attack.
In July 2023, German police arrested seven members of an alleged Islamist terror cell in the same region. According to public broadcaster ZDF, similar arrests were made simultaneously in the Netherlands. The men of Tajik and Turkmen origin reportedly traveled to Western Europe via Ukraine.
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Shows that the so called religion of peace is not of God but from the bowels of Hell! Via Christo Rey!
My friend we must be careful not to “broad brush “, we also have violent people in the Church.
You’ve actually met “people in the Church” who are comfortable with beheading children of other religions or crucifying them simply because they are of other relitions and believe it to be mandated by their religion? Tell us where?
I am in favor of migration of peoples from one country to another. That said, a country is identified by the laws governing its people and, in a democracy, those laws are enacted by the elected representatives of the people. Countries have a right to establish the parameters of those allowed to enter that country – parameters established by the laws of that country.
When the laws of a country are permitted to be flouted – whether by its own citizens or those outside that country, you are asking for the demise of said nation. Opening borders in contradiction to that country’s laws is pure insanity and will end with the elimination of that country. Is that what Germans want? Is that what Americans want? Current immigration policies are nothing short of an invasion of the Germanic tribes into the West beginning in the 5th c. and continuing for hundreds of years. My friends: don’t surrender your guns, you’re going to need them.
Immigration should be lawful, controlled and those wishing to enter a country must be vetted. No one should be welcome into homes where are housed vulnerable women and children without husbands knowing who they are. Real men don’t expose those who depend on them for protection to any who might do them harm. But, then again, otherwise real men have left the room – they are busy “doing sports”, playing video games, or occupying themselves with pornography.
One way or another, the enemy must be delt with.
Peace is anathema to them.