Large-Scale Raids in Germany: Six “Refugee” IS Fighters Arrested For Preparing Attack on Christmas Market

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Update, 5PM CET:
According to Focus, they have learnt from investigator circles that the arrested suspects were photographing rubbish bins, installed at hip height, on Kennedyplatz, where the Christmas Market will open soon. Investigators think this means the suspects intended to plant explosive devices in the rubbish bins. The suspects were also scouting the Limbecker Platz shopping mall and the nearby Rathaus-Galerie mall.

According to Hessenschau, data storage devices, mobile phones and laptops, and documents were seized. The investigators also found city maps of Essen with the Christmas Market location marked.

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Raid in Essen in the early Tuesday morning hours.

An original translation from Focus:
Six Arrests
Large-Scale Raid! IS terror suspects apparently planned attack on Christmas Market Essen
Tuesday, November 11, 2017, 1:59 PM CET

During large-scale raids in several German states on Tuesday, six alleged members of the Jihadist militia IS were arrested. They are suspected of having been preparing “an attack with weapons or explosives on a public target in Germany”, the General Prosecution Frankfurt announced.

The suspects accordingly planned an attack on the Christmas Market Essen, Hessischer Rundfunk Hessische Rundfunk learned from sources among the investigators. The plans for the attack were not yet completed. According to „Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger“ they probably planned an attack on a shopping mall in Essen.

As the „Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger“ (Wednesday edition) learned from sources among the investigators, one of the men, a 20-year-old asylum seeker, together with other persons, has been taking photographs of the shopping centre Limbecker Platz, Essen, shortly ago. The men pretended they were students of architecture. While they carried out this operation, they were allegedly already being observed by the authorities. The investigators became suspicious, as already in March, there was a terror threat to this shopping centre in downtown Essen. It remained close for several days. It is still not clear who was behind the threat.

These information are yet to be officially confirmed.

Police arrest six Syrians
The investigations are concerning six Syrians between 20 and 28 years old. Four of them are in Germany since December 2014, and two came as asylum seekers late summer 2015.

They are suspected to be members of a foreign terrorist organization and of preparing a grave subversive act of violence.

At the early Tuesday morning raid, 500 officers of the Hessian Land Office of Criminal Investigations and other police stations searched eight apartments in Kassel, Hannover, Essen and Leipzig. The authorities declined to specify more details.

Suspects entered Germany as Refugees
Welt first reported about the anti terror raid in several German states. Accordingly, hints by refugees led the investigators on the tracks of the six men. They had come, using false identities, as civil war refugees to Germany.
The witnesses stated that the men had been fighting for the terror militia IS in Syria. Investigations showed that the men had contact to each other and had radical-Islamic convictions, says the report.

Christmas Market Essen, Kennedyplatz, in a previous year. Photo: Prengel

8 Replies to “Large-Scale Raids in Germany: Six “Refugee” IS Fighters Arrested For Preparing Attack on Christmas Market”

  2. There was a post in (now deleted by twitter) which suggested that an “Arab looking Jew” was involved in the planning of terror. Pure trolling from a triggly puff.

    Blaming Jewish ethnicity instead of diagnosing any hostile ideology as to why they to wanted to kill Germans. Yet, there is huge supply of reasons for Muhammadans to kill kufar.

    To be ethnically Jewish today, (as explained here by a woman questioner – has Christopher Hitchens advise her to tell the Evangelical Christians who bother her to F$ck Off):
    https://youtu.be/r1fmWVECUI4

    And that is all anyone has to have, in a free society, is not be harrassed and bullied by cowardly idealists. Those weak before the strong and strong before the weak. Islam. Communism.

      • Yes. But Muslims are taught that all evil deeds copied directly off Muhammad are a Jewish Conspiracy. That Muslims only defend themselves from mischief. He was The Perfect Man. You deleted the evidence of a Muslim mind-conditioning.

        Who then, will believe that they blame the Jews?

        That is not the spirit of this site.

        They had written, “it was an Arab looking Jew,” (i.e. pretending to be a Muslim).

        And I replied:
        Was it:
        1. An Arab-looking Jew?
        2. An Arab looking-Jew?
        3. Or a Christmas-bearing Muslim?

        We both got our points across.

        Muslims need educating and reaching out to. If they break from being civilized, say, mentioning they get a woody from watching an intelligent woman speak for once, then I might tell them to sober up.

      • And then we get to testify to the Muslim “Muhammad was not Great!”

        “Ibn Ishaq, one of Muhammad’s earliest Muslim biographers relates for us a story in his biography of Muhammad which raises another wart on Muhammad’s soul. According to Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad sent two of his Muslim followers–Amr bin Umayya al-Damri and an-Ansari, assassins both, for Muhammad rubbed shoulders with such types–to his old home town of Mecca to kill his enemy Abu Sufyan. Unfortunately for them, the townsfolk recognized al-Damri, and the two assassins were chased out of Mecca.

        From here, we shall let Ibn Ishaq tell the story:

        “They got up to pursue us and I told my companion to escape, for the very thing I feared had happened, and so as to Abu Sufyan there was no means of getting at him. So we made off with all speed and climbed the mountain and went into a cave where we spent the night, having successfully eluded them so that they returned to Mecca. . . . .[My partner, an-Ansari having left], I went into a cave there taking my bow and arrows, and while I was there in came a one-eyed man of B[anu] al-Dil [i.e., the al-Dil tribe] driving a sheep of his.

        When he asked who I was I told him that I was one of the B[anu] Bakr [i.e., the Bakr tribe]. He said that he was also, adding of the B[anu] al-Dil clan. Then he lay down beside me and lifting up his voice began to sing:

        ‘I won’t be a Muslim as long as I live,
        Nor heed to their religion give.’

        I said (to myself), ‘You will soon know!’ and as soon as the badu was asleep and snoring I got up and killed him in a more horrible way than any man has been killed. I put the end of my bow in his sound eye, then I bore down on it until I forced it out at the back of his neck. Then I came out like a beast of prey and took the highroad like an eagle hastening . . . .

        When I got to Medina . . . [Muhammad] asked my news and when I told him what had happened he blessed me.”

        (Ibn Ishaq, trans. by Guillaume (2006), pp. 673-75).”

        http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=48356

        Simples.