A Cologne-arrested Syrian fugitive had, apparently, Islamists Connections and was planning a bomb attack. He had raised in Internet-Chats his “unequivocal willingness” to commit such attack, said Klaus-Stephan Becker from the Cologne police on the progress of the investigation.
a chat partner abroad, that he had received “very specific instructions” to build a bomb, said Becker. Evidence that he was supplied with materials for the construction of an explosive device, there is, however, said the Cologne police President Jürgen Mathies. A specific target is not known. According to the Cologne chief Prosecutor Ulf Willuhn it went in the chat traffic issues of a perceived legitimacy of killing actions, and therefore, the Points at which explosive devices in an attack on the best place.
The police had evaluated the cell phone of the 16-Year-olds: The data occupied “contacts abroad to a Person living with IC-implications, wanted to win the young Syrians for Islamist activities,” stated the Cologne public Prosecutor’s office and police. The first indications that the Syrians have radicalized in a short period of time, would have confirmed this.
arrest in refugee accommodation
The young man had been arrested on Tuesday in the Cologne gymnasium, which is used as an emergency facility for up to 200 refugees, from a special unit. In the scrum, which was created by the sudden SEC-use, had been injured three refugees easily. The investigators had obtained clues to its radicalisation.
According to the findings of the investigators of the 16 had radicalized-Year-old apparently within a few months. According to Mathies, he was together with his parents and his sister at 4. January 2015 in Münster, Germany as a refugee recognised. The family lived, therefore, first of all, in Dülmen, then in an asylum accommodation in Cologne-Holweide, and most recently in Cologne-Porz.
references to “strange behavior”
Mathies reported that a total of three cases, in which the Cologne police had examined since June, notes on a peculiar behavior of the young people. As reported therefore on 10. June, the management, and several inhabitants of the accommodation in Cologne-Holweide about a “strange behaviour” of young people. He’ll eat fruit and pray more often – he’s turning into a slightly different direction than that of the Muslim prayer is common, what suggest the existence of a IS-reference. Mathies, according to the investigators studied already at that time, the mobile phone of the boy, found on the device, but only a few images with the IS-relation and also not a hidden folder, of the in the Instructions.
After the relocation of the family to the Cologne-Porz, the police received the information that on 2. September notes from social workers from the local accommodation. The Boy isolate himself, looking at no one and at night, constantly on the move. In the subsequent Review, the police are not met with according to Mathies, but on “Terrorism cover”.
last Sunday, then went to the police clues to the young people from a mosque of the Islam Association Ditib in Cologne-Porz as well as staff and fellow residents of the Porzer a property. Accordingly, the young people had for two months regularly, and over many hours in the mosque stopped, and his cell phone used. The speech was of references to the IS.
investigators want to behind men
investigators discovered on the phone of the 16-Year-old the chat history that was not in the first Review of the mobile phone in June. The behavior of the young people have changed so “within three months,” said Mathies.
The boy’s father had rejected the allegations immediately after the arrest. He told WDR that his son had prayed in a different Cologne accommodation for the first time. “As Syrians and Iraqis were regularly prayed together. And they wanted my son to be a part of. You don’t have but just prayed. You also have given Islam lessons,” he explained. Later, his son had been contacted by the Internet of people who wanted to persuade him to return to Syria or to travel to Palestine. His son was dangerous, he was just joking in the context of Islam, said his father.
The investigations were only at the beginning, emphasized the police and the Prosecutor’s office. It is, among other things, to identify the men behind the. So far, you’ve found a chat partner. The public Prosecutor has requested arrest warrant. A competence of the Federal Prosecutor General is checked.
The German authorities are due to the entry of suspected extremists in the alert. Only last week, the IS, were to be arrested in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, three Syrians, members. One of them should be been trained in handling weapons and explosives. Also, the attacks of Würzburg and Ansbach in July, went to investigators, according to the account of Islamists. Experts have declared that the danger of bomb attacks in the West increases, the more the IS in its core territory in Syria and Iraq under pressure.
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