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2024-09-07 Europe
Suspected Islamist threatens German police with machete, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’
There must be so many that the autuorities have given up trying to hide them all.
[IsraelTimes] A 29-year-old Albanian man
…doesn’t Albania want to join the EU?
carrying a machete has attacked a German cop shoppe, with Sherlocks probing a possible "radical Islamist motive."

The man entered the station in the western town of Linz am Rhein, shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Greatest") and said he wanted to "kill coppers," Koblenz prosecutors say.

Officers on site locked the entrance door and a door leading to the inner courtyard of the cop shoppe, leaving the man trapped.

"The accused is said to have tried to open them by force... but was unsuccessful," prosecutors add.

Special forces were alerted to the situation and neutralized the attacker using a taser.

During a search of his home, Sherlocks find the emblem of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group drawn on the wall.

The Albanian suspect remains under arrest and investigations are ongoing, according to prosecutors.
Update from Breitbart at 6:05 p.m. ET:
An Islamist apparently botched an attempted terror attack in the German city of Linz, in the Rhineland-Palatinate on Friday after he rushed a police station with a machete. He attempted to get inside but was foiled by the security door, and was locked in — alone — in the compound by officers, who then tasered him into submission.

The suspect, said to be a 29-year-old Albanian migrant, is reported to have shouted the now-familiar “Allahu Akhbar” as he attempted to strike, and investigating officers searching his apartment found an Islamic State flag hanging on the wall. Police have conceded there was likely an Islamist terror motive, but Welt states he was not on the radar of the intelligence services before today.

He has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and is awaiting trial, with the investigation into the attack being handed by counter-terror officers.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 We just had another incident in Munich Old Town. A man was reported to run around with a machete. Lots of police with automatic guns swarming the area around Marienplatz and Viktualienmarkt, helicopters, too. No more info at this point, nothing in the media (yet).
Posted by European Conservative 2024-09-07 12:22||   2024-09-07 12:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Situation calm now. Maybe false alarm. People are nervous.
Posted by European Conservative 2024-09-07 12:29||   2024-09-07 12:29|| Front Page Top

#3  another incident in Munich Old Town.

As I recall, asylum seekers used to cluster around the city center train station. Is that still so, and is that the same area?
Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-07 13:12||   2024-09-07 13:12|| Front Page Top

#4 I can remember when running around with a machete shouting Allahu Akbar made you an Islamic terrorist not a suspected Islamic terrorist.
Posted by jpal 2024-09-07 14:10||   2024-09-07 14:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Most of the police presence was in Tal (the street running from Marienplatz to Isartor, so not in the railway station area.

Still nothing in the media although I talked to a person who saw the guy.
Posted by European Conservative 2024-09-07 14:22||   2024-09-07 14:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Next time I go to the Pferdemetzgerei I'll need to watch my back.
Posted by DooDahMan 2024-09-07 14:24||   2024-09-07 14:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Weird to think you might have to "watch your ass" in Garmisch Partenkirchen. Still, thus isn't mostly the Turks is it EC? I saw them all over Germany when I was there and they didn't seem to be a problem.
Posted by Secret Master  2024-09-07 16:02||   2024-09-07 16:02|| Front Page Top

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