Germany: Man (29) wanted to drive into the crowd with a vehicle

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An original translation by Gary Fouse with much thanks!

From this Dutch news site:

ISIS Attack on German Christmas market foiled
Updated 29 min ago
34 min ago in BUITENLAND
(Foreign)

KARLSRUHE – The German police arrested a 29-year-old man on Wednesday who planned to attack the Christmas market in Karlsruhe with a vehicle. The man has ties with the Islamic State Islamic State (IS). That reported German media.

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According to the German police, the man, Dasbar W., was considering driving a car or truck into people at the ice rink on the Karlsruher Schlossplatz. In order to achieve his goal, he applied several times for the position of driver at various delivery companies.

Propaganda videos

The suspect was arrested in Karlruhe by an arrest team. His home has been searched. What is found there is not clear. It is known that the man made propaganda videos for IS. He often shared these on various internet sites. He also distributed propaganda material in a chat group.

W. traveled to Iraq several times in 2015 and 2016. There he joined IS and was trained in the use of firearms. The man will be brought before the court on Thursday.

Increased supervision

The security check on Christmas markets in Germany has intensified after the bloody attack in December last year at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing twelve people.

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4 Replies to “Germany: Man (29) wanted to drive into the crowd with a vehicle”

  2. German police arrest alleged IS militant in ice rink truck attack plot (reuters, Dec 20, 2017)
    https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-germany-security-arrest/german-police-arrest-alleged-is-militant-in-ice-rink-truck-attack-plot-idUKKBN1EE2HM

    “German police arrested a 29-year-old man they said was an active member of Islamic State who was plotting a truck attack on an ice rink.

    The arrest, a year after Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, hijacked a truck and drove it into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, comes as security services have warned of growing numbers of radical Islamists in Germany.

    “He was considering an attack on the ice rink on the Schlossplatz in Karlsruhe,” police in the south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said, adding that the suspect was a German citizen whose name they gave only as Dasbar W.

    “To that end he was assessing areas around Karlsruhe Castle and, from September 2017, had begun seeking employment as a delivery driver – without success,” the police statement said.

    In 2015, the suspect travelled to Iraq to fight for Islamic State, receiving weapons training and working as a scout seeking potential attack targets in the city of Erbil, police said. He returned to Germany the following year.

    Before leaving for Iraq, Dasbar worked for Islamic State from Germany, producing propaganda videos and proselytising to converts in online chat rooms, police said.

    Earlier this month, Germany’s security service warned that the number of Salafists – followers of a radical Islamist ideology – had risen to an all-time high of 10,800, though the number prepared to mount attacks was in the order of hundreds.”

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