The German services estimation that about 9,000 Islamists in Germany are ready to scope for violence, and over 400 have been considered a real threat. These figures, recalled by Die Welt, took on weight after the fresh Berlin bombing in which Polka died. How close is the line of this threat today?
The numbers the press has revealed
According to data from the German services cited by Die Welt, in Germany about 9 1000 100 people with muslim views belong to an environment ready to usage violence. It's an estimation of the counterintelligence from last year's safety report. Individually, the national Criminal Office counted 4 100 and forty-six persons considered to be threatening, i.e. capable of committing a serious political or spiritual crime in the assessment of the services. The full muslim human possible in the country is estimated to be over twenty-eight 1000 people, and the Salafic stream, with respective 1000 followers, remains the most numerous.
The bombing that gave the numbers weight
Statistics, mostly known before, have returned to the top of the Berlin tragedy. At the end of July, during a parade downtown, the attacker drove his car into the passersby and then attacked them with a knife. Sixty - 5 - year - old Pole died, respective twelve people were injured, any in severe condition. The perpetrator, a twenty-one-year-old Lebanese German, was shot by police officers. What was peculiarly painful, the man was well known to the services: he was on the list of persons posing a threat and was previously convicted of preparing a serious crime and only a fewer weeks before the attack he regained his freedom.
Meaning “the individual causing the risk”
It's worth distinguishing 2 numbers due to the fact that they're easy to confuse. The individual causing the threat, in German ‘Gefährder’, is simply a category of police forecast alternatively than a sentence: the service assumes that specified a man may commit an assassination, although he has not been convicted for it. This is simply a much narrower ellipse than 9 1000 "ready for violence". It is besides fair to add that the very number of violent people in the past year has decreased slightly; the overall muslim possible has increased. The problem, therefore, is not a abrupt leap, but the continuing scale of the phenomenon, which is increasingly hard to control.
Berlin tightens the course
After the assassination, the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced tougher actions. Among the steps under consideration were the taking of German citizenship to Islamists holding a second passport and the acceleration of deportation of people deemed dangerous. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt spoke straight about the muslim assassination, and the opposition alternate for Germany demanded a break with the "conciliatory course" towards radicals. This is another muslim attack in fresh years, following the loud bombings in Solingen and Mannheim, which revived behind Oder the dispute over migration and security. The debate on the limits of openness, which Germany has been conducting for a decade, has returned with fresh strength.
Risk without borders
For Poland the full issue has a very circumstantial dimension. A victim of the Berlin attack was our compatriot, which reminds us that muslim panic in Western Europe does not halt at the borders of states or nationalities. Germany has been pursuing an open-minded policy for years, whose bill they are trying to issue their own services today. The question of how effectively they can reverse this trend and what lesson Poland will learn from it remains open.
Source: WP News
