German Police Arrest Islamist Plotting Truck Attack on Jewish Event
Police in the German city of Duisburg have arrested a known Islamist with a criminal record who was allegedly planning to drive a truck through a pro-Israel demonstration.
German police were tipped off to the alleged plans of Tarik S. by a foreign intelligence service, Die Weltreports. Tarik S. is a well-known German-born Islamist who fought with the Islamic State in Syria under the name “Osama the German.”
The 29-year-old is said to have also been somewhat of a poster child for the terrorist group, having appeared in multiple propaganda videos, including one in which he posed next to a person whom the group had beheaded.
After spending three years fighting for the Islamic State, Tarik S. returned to Germany in 2016 where he was arrested upon his return and charged by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office for his activities in the Middle East. He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2017.
It remains unclear to what extent the former Islamic State fighter’s plan had advanced, but German media reports suggest he had recently searched for both pro-Israel events and content relating to radical Islamic extremism on the internet.
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