Thread: Islamic target newly-arrived refugees as Gemany tries to tighten terror laws

Islamic extremists target newly-arrived refugees as Gemany tries to tighten terror laws

ISLAMIC extremists are trying to radicalise hundreds of newly-arrived refugees and turn them into ISIS fighters, German intelligence chiefs have warned.

By SIMON OSBORNE PUBLISHED: 10:00, Sun, Aug 14, 2016 | UPDATED: 10:41, Sun, Aug 14, 2016

Protestors demonstrating against Angela Merkel's immigration policies in Berlin

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) - Germany's domestic intelligence service - said it had concrete knowledge of more than 340 cases of attempted jihadist recruitment among migrants.

BfV president Hans-Georg Maassen said: "There are more than 340 cases which have become known to us. These are only the ones we know about. There are probably more cases."

Mr Maassen said refugee families were being given information about how to spot radical Islamists at their recruitment work and to report them to authorities.

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Fears of 'Sharia Police' and Islamic State support in German city

Migrants cross the Austrian-German border near the Bavarian town of Passau

There are more than 340 cases which have become known to us.These are only the ones we know about. There are probably more cases Hans-Georg Maassen

He said: "It gives us concern if the Salafists and other Islamists are allowed to recruit in this way."

The warnings were issued as Chancellor Angeka Merkel's open-door immigration policy comes coming under severe strain with politicians from all sides demanding changes to the system and protestors taking to the streets to demonstrate against the massive influx of migrants.

Germany is trying to toughen up its anti-terror laws in the wake of a spate of recent attacks which sent shockwaves throughout the nation.

Frauke Petry has called for offshore detention camps

An opponent of Angela Merkel has called for failed asylum-seekers to be sent to offshore detention camps while they await deportation

Frauke Petry, the leader of the right wing Alternative for Germany Party (AfD), wants a "return migration authority" which would "bring illegal migrants and rejected asylum seekers on to two islands protected by the United Nations outside Europe"

Police examine the scene of the Ansbach suicide bombing

She said: "Unaccompanied men should be separated from women or families. This is more secure than the current practice, less expensive and above all safer for women."

Ansbach bomber Mohammed Daleel was due to be sent home but was then declared unfit to deported because of two suicide attempts.

Islamic extremists target newly-arrived refugees as Gemany tries to tighten terror laws

ISIS 'hit squads and sleeper cells' are in Europe after slipping in alongside refugees, German spy chief warns

BayLfv vice president Manfred Hauser revealed the 'substantial reports'

The German spy said there were 'hundreds' of reports to investigate

Europe is on high alert after a wave of summer terrorist attacks

By TIM SCULTHORPE, MAILONLINE DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 13:55 GMT, 12 August 2016 | UPDATED: 15:45 GMT, 12 August 2016

A top German spy has warned there are ISIS 'hit squads and sleeper cells' hiding in Europe who snuck in among refugees.

Manfred Hauser, the vice president of Bavaria’s domestic intelligence agency, BayLfv, said there were 'substantial reports' of the threat.

The fear of a terror threat relating to mass refugee flows into Europe from the war in Syria has been heightened by a wave of summer attacks in Germany, France and Belgium.


ISIS fighters, file picture on the Iraq-Syria border, have slipped into Europe amid refugee flows and
have set up hit squads

While the recent attacks have mostly involved home-grown terrorists the fear of radicalisation and training has worried security agencies.

Mr Hauser told the BBC Today programme: 'We have to accept that we have hit squads and sleeper cells in Germany.

'We have substantial reports that among the refugees there are hit squads.

'There are hundreds of these reports, some from refugees themselves.

'We are still following up on these, and we haven’t investigated all of them fully.'

Germany is on high alert after a series of bloody attacks in the last month.

ISIS terrorists claimed responsibility for an attack on July 18 near Wuerzburg in Bavaria in which a 17-year-old refugee believed to be from Pakistan or Afghanistan wounded five people with an axe before police shot him dead.

A 27-year-old Syrian who blew himself up in Ansbach, southern Germany on July 24 had pledged allegiance to ISIS on a video found on his mobile phone, investigators said.

ISIS later claimed responsibility for the bombing, which wounded 15 people.


The Bastille Day attacks in Nice shook Europe as a terrorist took a lorry on a rampage along the
promenade, killing 84


The attack was the worse in Europe since the Paris attacks in November last year

On July 22, a teenager went on the rampage with a gun murdering nine young people after luring them to a MacDonald's and opening fire.

The massacre of 84 people on Bastille Day in Nice, in mid July, shook France and the wider continent as the terror threat returned.

A further ISIS-inspired attack in Normandy, in which Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel was murdered during Mass, raised fears further still on July 26.


Police are pictured investigating the scene of an explosion in Ansbach, Germany, after a 27-year-old
Syrian blew himself up in an attack claimed by ISIS


ISIS 'hit squads and sleeper cells' are in Europe after slipping in alongside refugees, German spy chief warns