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| Germany: Police Arrest Several After Threat To Hagen Synagogue |
| 2021-09-16 |
| [MSN] German police have arrested "several people," including a teenager, over a threat of an attack on a synagogue on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Hagen police said they arrested four people as a result of their investigation into the threat and had searched several buildings. The arrests followed a huge police deployment late Wednesday at and around the synagogue in Hagen, a city just east of Düsseldorf. The synagogue canceled an event due to the threat. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul had earlier confirmed one arrest, saying that a "youth" had been detained following the incident. Both Der Spiegel news magazine and the Bild newspaper reported without quoting sources that a foreign intelligence service had passed on a tip that a 16-year-old Syrian was planning an explosives attack on a synagogue. Terrorism authorities are also involved in the investigation, said prosecutors in Düsseldorf. POLICE 'LIKELY PREVENTED' ATTACK On Wednesday, police cordoned off the synagogue after there were indications of what police described as a "possible dangerous situation." Meanwhile, a service planned for Wednesday evening to mark Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday, was canceled at short notice. Police in Hagen "likely prevented" an attack on the synagogue, Reul said at an inauguration event for new police officers in Cologne. "There was the risk of an attack on the synagogue in Hagen. Your colleagues likely prevented it." REMINISCENT OF HALLE ATTACK Hagen police said on Wednesday night that they were in close contact with the Jewish community. "The people are worried,'' police told dpa. The event sparked memories of the synagogue attack in Halle. On Yom Kippur two years ago, an armed right-wing extremist tried to force his way into the synagogue there and shot two nearby people dead. The 28-year-old man who confessed to carrying out the attack was convicted last year and given a life sentence. He had expressed antisemitic and racist views during the trial. |
| Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660 |
| #9 Well EC... we'll do it over the North Sea. Fish gotta eat too. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2021-09-16 16:48 |
| #8 Is it like in America where the FBI starts these plots so they can stop them? |
| Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-16 14:09 |
| #7 There's always room for compromise. I suggest Syrian landscape. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2021-09-16 14:03 |
| #6 But the carcass is bio-degradable! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-09-16 13:53 |
| #5 Littering the landscape is verboten. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2021-09-16 13:50 |
| #4 Dumping him out the back of a C-130 at 10,000 feet would solve a lot of issues. Just sayin' |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2021-09-16 13:39 |
| #3 I was thinking of this, too. Remedy: Judge rules: "You will remain in prison until you are 50 years old." |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2021-09-16 13:33 |
| #2 It remains to be seen if the 16-year-old is a 16-year-old 16-year-old or a 16-year-old in his mid thirties. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2021-09-16 10:33 |
| #1 "that a 16-year-old Syrian was planning an explosives attack on a synagogue." Rites of passage |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2021-09-16 10:25 |