Three minors, two young girls aged 15 and 16 and a 15-year-old boy, from North Rhine-Westphalia (Northwest), are suspected of planning a terrorist attack. The German daily Bild claims that the teenagers planned to attack police officers and churches with knives and Molotov cocktails in the name of the Islamic State (IS) The authorities are all the more on alert as Germany prepares to host the Euro football tournament (June 14-July 14) In recent months, two raids have taken place in the country targeting suspected members of this branch before they took action.
Two suspected Afghan jihadists suspected of having prepared an attack near the Swedish parliament were arrested in Thuringia (in eastern Germany) on March 19. And at the end of December 2023, three suspected Islamists were arrested, suspected ofhaving planned an attack on New Year's Eve against Cologne Cathedral (west) using “a car”. The number of people on the spectrum of Islamist extremism in Germany increased from 28,290 in 2021 to 27,480 in 2022.