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Anis Amri acquaintance charged with bomb plot in Germany

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:11:40 +0100

German prosecutors have formally charged a Russian Islamist and acquaintance of Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri with plotting an explosives attack, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Egypt says deported German national is jihadist militant

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 10:38:41 +0100

German prosecutors said on Friday they were looking into allegations that a German national arrested and then deported by Egypt is a jihadist militant.

Man jailed in Frankfurt for fighting with Somali Islamists

Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:38:42 +0200

A Frankfurt court sentenced a Somali-born German national to two years and ten months in jail on Friday, for joining the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group and fighting alongside the Islamists in his native country.

Court frees suspected 'Islamist' intelligence agent

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:42:08 +0200

A Düsseldorf court on Wednesday freed an intelligence agent detained last November on suspicion of being an "Islamist" preparing to bomb his agency's headquarters.

Armed Islamist gang terrorizing 'immoral' Chechen women in Berlin: report

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:30:10 +0200

A group of armed Chechen men have beaten or threatened several women in Berlin in recent weeks for not abiding by their retrograde understanding of the Quran, Tagesspiegel reports.

Spies in Hesse say they're keeping close watch on halal shops

Tue, 02 May 2017 18:00:25 +0200

The head of Hesse's state intelligence agency said that halal shops are being monitored because they may attract fundamentalist Islamic customers.

Islamist given life sentence for trying to bomb Bonn train station

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:50:03 +0200

A German court Monday sentenced to life in prison an Islamist militant who plotted a failed bomb attack at a railway station, and handed jail terms to three other extremists.

What we know about the 'gay porn star turned Islamist spy'

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:53:17 +0100

German officials confirmed that an agent with the country's domestic spy service, the BfV, was in fact a suspected Islamist. Then media reported he had also once been a porn actor. Here's what we know so far.

German Islamist spy was Spanish gay porn actor: report

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:52:46 +0100

The bizarre story of a spy for Germany's domestic secret service who was revealed to be an Islamist got even stranger when media reported on Wednesday that he was also once a gay porn star.

German extremist groups 'getting bigger, more brutal'

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:41:37 +0200

Political extremism rose sharply in Germany last year - among far-right but also far-left and Islamist radical groups - the domestic intelligence agency said Tuesday.

'Islamist' shot dead after stabbing policewoman

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:43:16 +0200

An Iraqi man who spent time in jail for membership in an Islamist terrorist group was shot dead by German police on Thursday after he stabbed and seriously wounded a policewoman.

Merkel: Germany will fight Islamist extremists

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:54:19 +0100

Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged on Thursday to heighten security measures against Islamist militants following the Paris attacks, while vowing that Germany would not be divided by extremism of any kind.

Germany's jihadists: Young, male, losers

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:15:00 +0200

The hundreds of Germans who have travelled to Syria to join jihadi groups are largely young, male and failed at school and in their careers, according to a report from the security services.

Salafist threatens US nuclear facility

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:31:00 +0200

German security services said on Thursday the risks posed by Islamist terrorists in the country remained “high” after one extremist threatened to bomb an American nuclear facility in the west of Germany.

Police arrest Islamist bomb threat suspect

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:17:00 +0100

German police arrested a man on Friday over videos published on the Internet threatening bomb attacks unless an Islamist jailed earlier this year is released, authorities said.

Police in eight cities raid premises of suspected Islamists

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:26:00 +0100

Police in eight cities across Germany and Belgium raided flats and club houses allegedly connected to an extreme Islamist group on Tuesday.

Berlin stops plans for Islamic day-care centre

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:20:00 +0100

Verein Morgenland e.V., an association with suspected ties to an Islamist political party called Hizb ut-Tahrir has submitted an application to open an Islamic day-care centre in the Berlin district of Mitte.