The security authorities have revealed that 608 people are currently classified as so-called potential offenders in Germany. According to this, 505 people are classified in the area of “religious ideology”, a spokeswoman of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) told this newspaper, the Neue Westfälische. The area of “religious ideology” is listed by the BKA as a sub-category of Islamist-motivated terrorism and extremism.
In the area of right-wing extremism, there are currently 72 dangerous persons, nine in the area of left-wing extremism and 22 in the area of “foreign ideology”. In addition to the category of dangerous persons, the BKA also records “relevant persons” who do not pose a concrete threat of attack, but who support serious politically motivated crimes.
In the area of religious ideology, these are 504 people, in the right-wing extremist scene 186 people are counted and among left-wing extremists 73 people. Another 45 people would fall into the area of “foreign ideology” in this category.
Of the Islamist high-risk suspects, 92 are currently in custody. As far as the security authorities know, 203 persons from this spectrum are currently abroad. Accordingly, there are apparently 210 Islamist hazards currently at large in Germany.
According to terrorism expert Peter Neumann, however, a terrorist threat does not emanate solely from persons who “have been trained by or fought for organised groups such as the Islamic State, but from ‘lone wolves'”, the newspaper Die Welt reported. It had been shown several times in the past years that such persons were capable of committing deadly attacks.
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