Posted on 09/16/2021 5:06:40 PM PDT by Conservat1
German police detain 4 after threat to Hagen synagogue
Police have released three people arrested over a possible attack on a synagogue in the western city of Hagen ahead of a major Jewish holiday. Authorities believe the threat was motivated by "Islamist ideology."
German police arrested four people Thursday, including a teenager, over a threat of an attack on a synagogue on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
Germany averted possible attack on synagogue during Yom Kippur, minister says
By Nadine Schmidt and Rosa Steindorff, CNN
Updated 3:43 PM EDT, Thu September 16, 2021
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“After the attack on the synagogue in Halle on the highest Jewish holiday Yom Kippur two years ago, a young person shouted to me: You can’t protect us! In Hagen, a synagogue was now once again seriously threatened, presumably with Islamist motives,” Seehofer said in a statement.
“This time, the security authorities were quicker. We are doing everything humanly possible to protect our people. Never again must Jews live in fear in our country. There is no place for anti-Semites in our society.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/europe/hagen-germany-synagogue-police-intl-grm/index.html
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Hey Germany, hows that importing refugees from Jihadist countries working out for ya..I guess I shouldn’t be talking..coming to an American city near you
Yes. At least one of the “Islamist ideology” plotters is a Syrian Arab immigrant...
Lol
UPDATE: Four held over foiled ‘Islamist’ attack on German synagogue
AFP news@thelocal.de @thelocalgermany
16 September 2021
11:04 CEST
German police on Thursday arrested four suspects, including a Syrian teenager, over a foiled attack at a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year, a plot officials said was likely Islamist motivated.
The case revived memories of an attack two years ago outside a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle, when a neo-Nazi gunman sought to storm the
Jewish temple while worshippers were inside marking Yom Kippur.
There was a huge police deployment late Wednesday at the synagogue in the western city of Hagen, which was forced to cancel an event over the threat.
A 16-year-old Syrian was among four people detained Thursday over the case.
“It appears that prior to today on Yom Kippur, a Islamist motivated attack was averted,” said Armin Laschet, the state premier of Germany’s most populous region North Rhine-Westphalia, where Hagen is located.
“We will do everything we can to clarify which networks may have been behind” the plot, added Laschet, who is also running to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as Germany’s leader.
The region’s interior minister Herbert Reul added that officials had “concrete” details about the plot.
“Time of action, intended crime scene and perpetrator were clearly cited,” said Reul.
Investigators were still searching sites in the city, said police.
Both Spiegel weekly and Bild daily had reported without quoting sources that a foreign intelligence service had passed on a tip that a 16-year-old Syrian was planning an explosives attack on a synagogue.
In the 2019 attack, a bolted door at the synagogue was the only thing that prevented the assailant from carrying out the bloodbath.
After failing to gain entry, he shot dead a female passer-by and a man at a kebab shop.
The gunman, Stephan Balliet, was sentenced to life in prison in 2020 over the assault that nearly became the country’s worst anti-Semitic atrocity since World War II.
‘Biggest threat’
Anti-Semitic crimes have risen steadily in Germany in recent years, with 2,032 offences recorded in 2019, up 13 percent on the previous year.
They have sparked soul-searching in Germany, which has placed a huge emphasis on atoning for the murder of six million European Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime during World War II.
The arrival in parliament of the far-right AfD, whose leaders openly question Germany’s culture of historical remembrance, has contributed to the change in atmosphere.
The influx of more than a million asylum seekers, many from Muslim countries such as Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq, has also played a role in growing hostility against Jews in recent years.
In an assault that sparked revulsion in Germany, a Syrian migrant was charged for lashing out with a belt in April 2018 at an Israeli man wearing a Jewish kippa skullcap.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said this month that German security services had thwarted 23 terrorist attacks since 2000.
Islamists have committed several violent attacks in Germany in recent years, the deadliest being a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 people.
The Tunisian attacker, a failed asylum seeker, was a supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group.
More recently, one man was killed and another seriously injured in an Islamist knife attack in the city of Dresden last October. A 21-year-old Syrian man with a known Islamist background was convicted in May over the homophobic attack.
The number of Islamists considered dangerous in Germany rose sharply between 2015 and 2018, according to security services.
But numbers have declined since then, with just 615 considered dangerous by the latest count – compared with 730 in January 2018.
At the same time, Germany was also battling a wave of far-right violence.
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By Hui Min NEO
https://www.thelocal.com/20210916/several-arrests-over-german-synagogue-attack-threat/
Police unsure of the motive...
Released 3 out of the 4 already?
That was quick.
“Police unsure of the motive...”
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At least here, the DW was clear in its title. Vs CNN...
I’m presume they will be followed/traced ...to see with whom they’re liked with.
"... going back to community college..."
"...up and coming rapper..."
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..a moderate...
Or disappear...
Isn't this a bit like the "dog bites man" story?
Of course your’e right, it’s possible. I somehow want to cling to hope...
Yes, the story on abd of itself. But the title isn’t in line with woke-vocabuaey...
Islamist’ attack on a synagogue
Isn’t this a bit like the “dog bites man” story?
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Yes, the story on and of itself. But the title isn’t in line with woke-vocabuaey..
You import people into your country who hate Jews/Israel, and anti-Semitic attacks will increase. An amazing coincidence!
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