Four minors from North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg are said to have planned an Islamist terrorist attack. The German Police Union is also very concerned.
Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Cologne were discussed as attack cities and attacks with knives and Molotov cocktails on people in churches or on police officers in police stations. Investigators said on Friday that Islamist influencers were now particularly targeting young people. The suspects do not correspond to the prevailing image of suspected extremists with an Islamist background, i.e. around 30 years old, male and possibly battle-hardened, said DPolG federal chairman Rainer Wendt to the German Press Agency on Saturday. It was only in November that two 15 and 16-year-old teenagers were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. They were said tohave sympathized with the so-called Islamic State and planned an attack on a Christmas market. The police will not give up the “required level of proximity to the citizens”