Terrorist attack on Christmas market in Hanover planned?
The detainee is intended to be an Iraqi citizen who has been in Germany only since last year. According to information from security circles, the man is said to have thought about attacking visitors to a Christmas market with a knife. He was about to be deportationd: "in vote with the Federal Police, it was already for today, Friday, the 1. December 2023, prepared," said the Ministry of the Interior in Magdeburg on Friday. But the man did not know about this appointment before he was arrested. The 20-year-old had previously filed a complaint against the deportation decision of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees to the Administrative Court of Magdeburg. This was the 20-year asylum application on 21. November 2023 as obviously unfounded.LKA can "do not rule out" Hanover attack target
According to information from NDR and WDR, the attack may have been the Christmas market in Hanover. "we cannot rule out at the moment," said a spokesman for the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA) on Friday of the German Press Agency. Lower Saxony's Minister of Interior Daniela Behrens (SPD) told NDR Lower Saxony on Thursday evening that they had no evidence of concrete attacks in Lower Saxony, but the available findings had prompted the security authorities to take the 20-year-old into preventive custody.Islamists was already arrested on 21. November Arrested
The 20-year-old from Saxony-Anhalt was killed in the course of danger prevention on 21. November in Helmstedt taken by the LKA in police custody. "The 20-year-old is still in police custody on the basis of danger-defence measures. For reasons of investigation tactic, the state criminal law office in Lower Saxony does not currently call an other background," said an LKA spokesman. According to the investigators, the investigators is supposed to be an Islamist who is said to have declared himself prepared to carry out such an assassination attempt to support the terrorist militia "Islamic State" (IS).Federal Prosecutor General's Office determined
Meanwhile, the Federal Prosecutor General in Karlsruhe is investigating the possible support of a terrorist association in this case and has allowed the man's home to be searched. A spokeswoman for the authority did not want to comment on the facts upon request.The police are very present at major events, says Lower Saxony's Minister of the Interior Behrens. The people of Lower Saxony would not have to be afraid to visit a Christmas market.
Haldenwang: "Danger as high as long nothing more"
On Wednesday, the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Thomas Haldenwang, warned against Islamist violence. "The danger is real and as high as it has not been for a long time," said Haldenwang. Due to the Middle East conflict and the Koranic incinerations in Sweden, the mood in the Islamist scene in this country is clearly heated. Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) said similar. "We are working hard to thwart potential planning against the safety of Jews, Israeli institutions, but also of major events," explained Haldenwang.https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/nied...smarkt-in-Hannover-geplant,islamisten234.html
