The German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, stated this Monday that the threat of Islamist terrorism in Germany remains at high levels and warned that the country is in the crosshairs of jihadist organizations such as the Islamic State (IS) and its derivatives. as well as lone wolves.
Following the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7 and the war in the Gaza Strip, the danger of Greater “emotionalization and radicalization of Islamists willing to violence” is high in Germany, Faeser highlighted during a visit to the headquarters of the interior secret services in Cologne (west).
The social democrat recalled the recent decision of ban the Islamic Center of Hamburg, which he said “propagated a totalitarian Islamist ideology,” acted as “an arm of the Iranian regime of the Ayatollahs” and supported “Hezbollah terrorists.”
He also defended the ban in Germany of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and the Samidoun organization., which allow the police to “act harshly” in the face of a possible revival of protests against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Faeser also pointed out the measures implemented by his Ministry to prevent them from acquiring German nationality in the future. people suspected of having committed crimes of anti-Semitism and to facilitate the deportation of foreigners accused of this same type of crime.
In the second quarter of the year alone, 715 possible anti-Semitic crimes have been registered in Germany, 19 of a violent nature, according to the head of the Interior.
Furthermore, he stated, since last October 7, a total of 171 police officers have been injured in Germany in the course of protests against the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, while the authorities have sent almost 11.000 deletion requests to various social networks. of Islamist propaganda.
On the other hand, the minister announced her intention to implement legal measures to tighten the weapons law so that in the future it will not be possible to carry knives with blades longer than six centimeters in public, instead of twelve as until now, and also advocated intensifying controls in this regard.
Agencies contributed to this Aurora article.