Germany (catch all, incl. terrorism)

[AdamG]

BERLIN (AP) — Six people were detained in connection with what police and prosecutors allege was a plan to carry out an attack on Berlin's half-marathon Sunday, German authorities said. A police spokesman later said that no athletes or spectators had been in danger.

The German daily Die Welt first reported that police foiled a plot to attack race spectators and participants with knives.The main suspect allegedly knew Anis Amri, a Tunisian who killed 12 people and injured dozens more when he drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin in December 2016, Die Welt reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-me...145628100.html

Moderator adds: all six men were released without charge.

[davidbfpo]

Strange and I think his arrest was reported here. A German article that opens with:

One year ago, a right-wing extremist German army officer was arrested on suspicion of terrorism, then it was discovered he was also leading a double life as a Syrian refugee. The case is anything but closed.In early February 2017, Franco A., a career soldier in the German army, the Bundeswehr, was apprehended by Austrian authorities as he attempted to retrieve a French pistol and ammunition that he had hidden in a bathroom at the Vienna airport. After checking his fingerprints in a database, authorities discovered that the man, born the son of an Italian father and a German mother in the Hesse region of Germany, was actually registered as a Syrian refugee and living in Bavaria. Despite the fact that he spoke hardly any Arabic and was supposed to be serving full-time at a Bundeswehr base in Alsace, nobody had realized he was leading a double life.

Link:http://www.dw.com/en/a-german-right-...ife/a-43540639

[davidbfpo]

Back to the completed trial in July 2018 of XRW murderers, a wider commentary that concludes:

These findings, though, do not lead to the conclusion that we experience a rigorous criminal prosecution against radical right offenders in Germany. On the contrary, when it comes to neo-Nazi violence in general (such as arson attacks, assaults, or riots), law enforcement often works slowly and hesitantly....This observation reveals an ambiguity in dealing with radical right violence in Germany. A consistent and decisive handling of this challenge by the prosecuting authorities is far off.

The article is by a UK-based observer of the XRW, CARR; oddly this commentary is not on their website (link:https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/) and is on a website not seen before.

Link:https://rantt.com/the-under-discusse...sm-in-germany/

[davidbfpo]

Hardly believable: a fax was sent last summer from a Frankfurt police station's fax to the lawyer representing some of the victims in the long running (NSU) Neo-Nazi murder spree trial. So the first link is to a commentary:https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-neo-na...ire/a-46794541

Second is an August 2018 report of a Neo-Nazi cell inside the German Army SOF:https://www.dw.com/en/cases-of-far-r...ary/a-43352572

[davidbfpo]

Alerted by Twitter to these arrests, but nothing readily found on the BBC. Then AM today a series of tweets from @andrewflood and summarised as and complete with links to various articles, some in German:

Truly shocking revelations from Germany this morning of a far-right cell mostly composed of cops connected to the recent murder of a politician which had used their access to police computers to draw up a death list with 25,000 targets on it & stole 10,000 bullets + machine gun.

Link:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...505151489.html

(Added) Or a UK newspaper, which is a summary only:https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...P=share_btn_tw

Oddly the first Google hit I did went to this Trotskyite website, which appears to have the same news and some commentary.
Link:https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/201.../meck-j24.html