December 21, 2024
Unusual age and nationality for a suspect in such a case: knowledgeable
Hans-Jakob Schindler, who previously was the Coordinator of the ISIL, al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team for the United Nations Security Council, additionally highlighted the age of the alleged suspect as one in all various uncommon elements of Friday night’s assault, ought to it show to be politically motivated.
Many of the opposite particulars, like his lengthy interval residing in Germany, had been recognized phenomena, he mentioned.
“We have seen very constantly since 2014, the place Germans born and raised in Germany have travelled to Syria to hitch ISIS,” he defined.
“So it’s clearly attainable for individuals to be radicalized who’ve lived in Germany for a really very long time and are then able to assault.”
But he mentioned it was much less frequent for somebody of extra superior years, or hailing from Saudi Arabia, to commit such crimes in recent times.
“We have largely seen the age of perpetrators getting youthful. Also the final time a lot of Saudi attackers had been concerned was the 9/11 terrorist assaults within the United States, when 18 of the perpetrators had been Saudi Arabian,” he mentioned.
Schindler additionally famous that terrorist teams had been at present in a position to focus extra on actions in locations like Europe provided that they had been engaged in much less fight nearer to residence.
“We have seen… the broader indication of those terror networks not being beneath sustained army strain in Afghanistan, Africa or Middle East and having a way more broader functionality of planning and conducting assaults in Europe.”
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