The Minister of internal Affairs of Germany Thomas de Maiziere said that the number of potential Islamist extremists in Germany today than ever before.
He said this in an interview with Bild newspaper published on Saturday, September 10, reports Deutsche Welle. “The number of more than 520 people is greater than ever,” – said the Minister.
Under potential Islamist xtremetony, according to him, refers to the person against whom factual evidence that they could commit politically motivated crimes of significant magnitude. In addition, the country is still about 360 people who had come to the attention of the German law enforcement because they can play the role of minions in a potential Islamist crimes, the Minister said.
At the same time, de maizière stressed that security forces “are in full force working to keep under review all potential terrorists” and that today there are so many investigations and arrests, as was not many years before that.” However, the government is forced to reckon also with the unknown by individual terrorists,” added the Minister.
In addition, he called the incitement to crime in the name of Islam “abuse of religion” and urged Muslims in Germany distance themselves from the Islamist motivated terrorist attacks.
