Month: October 2020

Germany: Islamic terrorist from Cologne wanted to force a quicker approval of his asylum application by means of his bomb attack

Terror alert and major police operation in Cologne at the beginning of October! A nail bomb had been discovered in a parked regional train, which only later turned out to be non-functional. A man (21 years old) from Lüdenscheid, who was arrested almost a week later, confessed to the crime. On Wednesday new details about his motive became known.

The Syrian refugee is said to have deposited the alleged explosive device because, according to his own statements, he was “dissatisfied with the processing of his asylum application and his current status under aliens law”. This is the result of a report by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior to the state parliament in Düsseldorf.

After entering Germany in September 2017, the suspect had applied for asylum and received a residence permit in August 2020. During interrogation, he stated that he assumed that the parcel would be found immediately – and that he could thus draw attention “to his current living situation”.

When the package, which had initially been hidden in a rubbish bin, was not discovered, he went to the toilet again on the train journey from Lüdenscheid to Engelskirchen and put it in a more visible place.Shortly after the man’s arrest, the police reported: “The 21-year-old’s motive was dissatisfaction with his precarious social situation. He had wanted to attract public attention with his crime.As the Ministry informed the Home Office, the parcel was wrapped in adhesive tape and a fuse was sticking out. “The package contained an explosive (black powder pellets/pyrotechnical powder from New Year’s Eve rockets), two firecrackers about 2-3 cm long, fibreglass insulation and mixed in metal balls, nails and screws. It was a homemade, non-functional bomb,” the report said.So far, according to the Ministry, the suspect has been completely unpunished. Now he is under investigation for disturbing the public peace by threatening to commit crimes in de facto unity with pretence of a crime.

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Avignon: Man shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ killed after attacking police with France on alert

French police have shot dead a man in the tourist city of Avignon after a terror attack put the country on high alert.

Local police opened fire at 11.15am local time after the man threatened passersby with a handgun. No other casualties were reported.

Police were also reportedly threatened in the incident which is not being treated as terror-related.

Initial reports claimed that he shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during the stand-off with police.

Officers first attempted to stun the suspect with a taser but opened fire when he continued to charge at them.

The incident occurred just hours after three people were killed at the Notre Dame basilica in Nice on Thursday morning.

In another incident, a man was arrested in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, after attacking a guard with a “sharp tool” in the city’s French consulate.

The incident happened in Montfavet, a neighbourhood several kilometers from Avignon’s city centre.

French news reports suggest the man had a “psychiatric history” and may have been a mental health patient at a nearby hospital.

It is believed the deceased suspect is of Turkish origin, according to early reports.

France has raised the security alert for French territory to the highest level, Prime Minister Jean Castex said.

He also told the French National Assembly that the government’s response to the attack would be firm and implacable.

France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of middle school teacher Samuel Paty by a man of Chechen origin.

The attacker had said he wanted to punish Paty for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics lesson.

It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the Nice attack, or if there was any connection to the cartoons, which Muslims consider to be blasphemous.

Since Paty’s killing, French officials – backed by many ordinary citizens – have re-asserted the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely displayed at marches in solidarity with the killed teacher.

That has prompted an outpouring of anger in parts of the Muslim world, with some governments accusing French leader Emmanuel Macron of pursuing an anti-Islam agenda.

At least two people were beheaded inside the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice at around 9am just as morning service started, with several others injured.

Police are understood to have shot the alleged perpetrator who shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he was arrested and taken to hospital.

Two victims – a man and a woman – had been decapitated, it has been confirmed. “Both victims were beheaded,” said the police spokesman, pointing to “a terrorist attack”.

It was also confirmed that one of the deceased was a church warden.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-avignon-man-shot-dead-22924296?ref=hvper.com

Germany: Turk kills 25-year-old woman with a knife

A loud argument, clattering, clinking, screaming – and then suddenly everything was silent.

Terrible bloody deed Tuesday afternoon in an apartment building on Hammersbecker Street in Bremen’s Vegesack district. A 25-year-old woman was stabbed to death with a knife. The suspected perpetrator is her husband (24 years old).

The young woman died in the flat!

After the crime he fled to his parents. Together they then alerted the police.

Around 6 pm the ambulance crew stormed into the flat. Too late! The emergency doctor could only confirm the death of the woman.

“Whether the woman would have had a chance of survival if the rescue services had been called in earlier is currently being investigated by the homicide squad,” said a police spokesperson.

The man was arrested.

According to the newspaper Bild, he is said to be a Turk with a German passport.

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‘Terror Attack’: Three Dead, Several Injured After Church Attack in Nice, France

French police “neutralised” and arrested a man Thursday morning after a knife attack inside a church in the city of Nice which left at least three dead and several injured.

A mass stabbing in the southern French city of Nice was declared a terror attack on Thursday, after an unidentified assailant killed three — two women and a man — and wounded several others inside the city’s Notre Dame church around 0900 hours, Western European Time (0400 EST).

The exact number of injured is unknown, but among them is the attacker themself, who was taken to hospital while under arrest, presumably having been injured during the arrest.

The mayor of Nice and the regional president, Eric Ciotti, have both called the killings a “terrorist attack” and France’s specialist terrorism investigation office has taken over the investigation from local officers, reports Le Figaro. In the parlance of French law, the investigation is in relation to suspected “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise, attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise and criminal association of terrorist criminals.”

Within an hour of the attack taking place, French national police urged locals to not be alarmed by the sound of explosions, as a bomb disposal unit was working to clear the area. This does not necessarily imply the attacker had left a bomb, however, as it is standard police practice to clear the area of an attack of all suspicious items as a precaution.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/29/terror-attack-three-dead-several-injured-in-nice-france/