Five arrested over plot to attack German Christmas market

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian were detained on Friday over the plan to target a market in the southern Bavarian state. Authorities said they suspected an "Islamist motive".

Prosecutors said the Egyptian - a 56-year-old - was alleged to have "called for a vehicle attack... with the aim of killing or injuring as many people as possible". The Moroccans allegedly agreed to carry out the attack.
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Authorities did not say when the planned attack was supposed to take place or which market was the target, though said they believed it to be one in the Dingolfing-Landau area, north east of Munich.

German newspaper Bild reported the Egyptian man was an imam at a mosque in the area.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dz7r708dxo

[Callie1979]

1. Putin is to blame for this. Part of his plan to destabilize EU countries.

He doesnt even hide it Anymore.

[JI7]

4. Is this a joke ?

[Callie1979]

6. No, its a FACT. Where you been? Its NOT new.

Plenty of RELIABLE news stories on this topic for years.

https://www.hoover.org/research/weaponization-migration-powerful-instrument-russias-hybrid-toolbox
Weaponization of Migration: A Powerful Instrument in Russia’s Hybrid Toolbox
As part of Moscow’s hybrid war toolbox, Russia’s weaponization of migration becomes an even more apparent means of destabilizing the West

https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2019-11-08/russia-positioning-itself-in-libya-to-unleash-migrant-crisis-into-europe
"Russia's efforts to manipulate refugee flows is aimed at destabilizing and politically weakening the European Union," says Agnia Grigas, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council. "Libya's proximity to Europe just across the Mediterranean is likely to unleash another refugee catastrophe."

https://www.euractiv.com/news/russia-encourages-migrants-to-cross-belarus-to-the-eu-baltic-states-warn/
Russia organises flights from the Middle East to Moscow, giving migrants access to the Belarusian and then EU borders

[Happy Hoosier]

8. Why would this be a joke?

It is well known Putin has ties to Islamist groups, and he wants to destablilize European countries. He would love nothing more than for there to be an intense nationalist/anti-immigrant backlash that destablizes current governments, distracting the from his efforts to expandhis control back in to Eastern Europe.

[lostincalifornia]

2. Thank goodness they were able to stop it.

[stollen]

3. Germany has excellent intel

and security, building on past events that have happened in Germany this time of year.

[ClaudetteCC]

5. Unfortunately several small towns have had to cancel their Christmas markets

because of the cost of security

[DFW]

7. Temporary controls have been set up again at the Dutch border

Belgium and NL, with several hundred thousands of Moroccans each, have an open border. A colleague from my Dutch office drove over today and said that the German border was almost like the pre-Schengen days. The three lane highway was narrowed to one, and EACH car was checked.

Unfortunately, the statistics here are unambiguous as to who commits these acts, and if they try to enter Germany and their names or faces are known, it only tells the Germans they were right to take the precautions. The nut cases do an immense injustice to the hundreds of thousands of their countrymen who really want to be living here.