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JTA — Police in at least three European countries have arrested people they said were threatening or planning terror attacks related to the Israel-Hamas war. The arrests come amid a global spike in antisemitic incidents following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that has spurred an ongoing Israeli military response in Gaza. While police have offered widely ranging levels of detail about the threats they said they interrupted, they believe Israelis were possibly the intended targets of multiple plots. In Duisburg, a German city of about 500,000 located near the Netherlands border, a man previously convicted of terrorism was arrested...

Arab clan gangs have threatened to kill police officers who attempt to enforce the law in the troubled area of Marxloh in the city of Duisburg, claiming only sharia applies to them. The Marxloh area has become a hub for Arab clan gangs in recent years. Last month, police faced down a mob of around 200 residents when attempting to arrest a local teen. After using tear gas and calling for reinforcements, it took 36 police to finally detain the youth who had hidden in a residential building. Just days after the incident, police received threatening emails, allegedly from Marxloh...

Two brothers from Kosovo have been arrested by German police on suspicion of plotting to attack the country's largest shopping mall in Oberhausen, near the Dutch border. The men, aged 28 and 31, were arrested in Duisburg with Germany on high alert following Monday's attack on the Christmas market in Berlin that killed 12 and injured 49. "Friday morning (23 December, around 00:45 hours) special units in Duisburg took two suspicious men into custody," Essen police said in a statement, "The 28-year old and 31-year-old brothers born in Kosovo are suspected of having prepared a possible attack on the CentrO...

"HAMAS AND THEIR SYSTEMATIC VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAWS (NOT TO MENTION BASIC HUMAN DECENCY)" "Video follows"

ROME (AFP) - Six Italians found shot dead in Germany Wednesday were the victims of a vendetta between families in the powerful Calabrian mafia from southern Italy, Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said Wednesday. Speaking in a televised press conference, Amato expressed the fear of further reprisals in the ongoing feud within the criminal organisation known as the 'Ndrangheta, centred on the Calabrian village of San Luca. "One of the people killed overnight in Duisburg may be one of the authors of the last crime that took place in San Luca," he said, adding that police were watching the region to...

Excerpt - BERLIN (Reuters) - Six men have been shot dead in the northwestern German town of Duisburg, police said on Wednesday. Police found the six in, or lying next to, two cars not far from the city's train station after a passer-by heard shots at about 2:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. British time) and alerted them. ~ snip ~ The cars were registered in a German town but some local media said the victims were not German.

Shooting Massacre In German Town Updated: 07:02, Wednesday August 15, 2007 Six people have been shot dead in a west German town - all of them suffered bullet wounds to the head. Duisburg in western Germany Five bodies were found in two cars near the train station in Duisburg and a sixth person died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Police spokesman Hermann-Josef Helmich said police do not yet know who could have committed the killings or what the motive might have been. "A witness heard the shots and stopped a police patrol car which was incidentally...