After the alleged Terrorist attack by an Austrian on the Israeli Consulate General in Munich, terrorism researcher Peter Neumann fears a New wave of Islamist attacks in EuropeIn an interview with Deutschlandfunk he spoke of a “dramatically increased number of such actions”.
“We have had in the last ten months 21 attempted attacks in Western Europe and seven attacks were carried out,” he said. That is a fourfold increase compared to 2022. “The strikes are becoming more frequent, they are getting closer. That already indicates that something is brewing.”
This is also why he is pushing for a European Threat Database“We have still not managed to create a European database containing all these people, so that – if, for example, this attacker is caught during a traffic check in Bavaria – a hit is immediately displayed,” he said.
Terrorist attack on Israeli consulate in Munich
“We still have a situation where the security authorities are not working together seamlessly,” criticized Neumann. “It should actually be self-evident that the Bavarian and German authorities know who the Austrian threats are, who is subject to a weapons ban.”
On Thursday morning there was a Exchange of fire between an armed man and police in front of the Israeli Consulate General in Munich. The man was shot and died on the spot. Investigators assume that Terrorist attack against the consulate Thursday marked the 52nd anniversary of the attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Games.
Neumann criticizes “huge security gap”
In the meantime, it became known that the dead shooter had been investigated on suspicion of religiously radicalized For the man from Salzburg with Bosnian roots, a Weapons ban imposedwhich would have expired in 2028 at the earliest, according to the Salzburg police.
Neumann spoke of a “huge security gap” and criticized “that, for example, the Bavarian authorities clearly did not know who this person was, even though he lived just an hour’s drive from Munich.” The Munich police did not initially respond to a query as to whether the man was known to the Bavarian authorities. (dpa)
