“Anyone who calls for the caliphate is making a claim to power’: Laschet warns – and calls for determination. “We have to identify exactly: Where are these groups - so that they feel that they have no space in Germany,” says Laschet.
Olaf Scholz's Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck also warned after the Hamas massacre in Israel and the subsequent, sometimes openly anti-Semitic, demonstrations. Peter Neumann, security researcher from King's College London, noted a sharp increase in Islamist terrorist assassination attempts after October 7.