CEP Senior Director quoted: "According to a report in The Guardian, Hans-Jakob Schindler, a terrorist expert, told German media, "In the first instance it's a surprise that a vehicle of that size was able to drive onto a Christmas market in Germany.""

“A counter-extremism expert has pointed to a significant security lapse that may have enabled Friday's deadly car-ramming attack at a German Christmas market. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Director of the Counter Extremism Project, told GB News: "There must have been a mistake or a gap in the security precautions."”

"We’re joined from Berlin by Hans-Jakob Schindler, who is Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project...'We did have cases where conspiracy theorists – and this is the category which he most fits into – had tried to perpetrate violent acts in Germany. There were attempts to abduct a federal minister last year. But this is a very odd and very specific combination of ideological narratives here, anti-Islamic hatred for Germany that protects him, hatred for the Saudis.'"

“Hezbollah has been classified as a terrorist organization in Germany since 2019. Nevertheless, it has a considerable support scene - also in Germany and Europe. In an interview, extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler explains Hezbollah's activities in Lebanon and Europe. Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler is Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project. He is also the former coordinator of the UN Security Council's ISIL, Al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team.”

"“The slim man with short hair looks at the judge with a stern expression. For weeks, Moaaz A. has had to answer to the Higher Regional Court in Munich - 26 years old, born in Syria. […] Hans-Jakob Schindler from the international non-profit organization "Counter Extremism Project", which, among other things, evaluates court proceedings and monitors the social media activities of extremists worldwide, emphasizes that the USA has much greater capacity to investigate terrorism and many more legal options: "All of this, of course, allows the Americans to repeatedly give Germany information that is of key importance. And attacks have been prevented time and again over the last two decades."

“There was no shortage of strong words immediately after the news broke. For Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the execution of German-Iranian dual citizen Jamshid Sharmahd is a "scandal". According to Annalena Baerbock, her Foreign Office campaigned "tirelessly" for the businessman, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020, and sent high-ranking teams to Iran to prevent the execution of the death sentence: "We have repeatedly made it unmistakably clear to Tehran that the execution of a German citizen will have serious consequences." […] According to Hans-Jakob Schindler, it is possible but not certain that "Tondar" was actually responsible. "After the attack, the German embassy in Tehran assumed that Islamists were more likely to be the perpetrators," says the senior director of the international Counter Extremism Project.”

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Violence at anti-Israel demonstrations in Germany is escalating. With growing concerns about security, police and authorities are facing new challenges. Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler sheds light on the background and explains how the security forces are responding."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: “Why do German security services often only become aware of potential threats when they receive information from abroad? Does deportation automatically end the threat of terrorism? Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler examines these questions in an interview with ntv.”

“...It is really a tough time for the German government under any circumstances, but it's also coming towards a government that has not found its stride in simply governing," said Hans-Jakob Schindler, a former German diplomat and director of the Counter Extremism Project. He said no mainstream party had ‘found a recipe’ to counter the AfD's narrative. An air of constant infighting in Mr. Scholz's coalition ‘gives the impression that it's a really dysfunctional government,’ even if in fact it can point to certain successes such as ending Germany's reliance on Russian gas imports, Mr. Schindler told The National. An explosion of voter anger over migration has sent German politics into a tailspin. Refugee centers have been filling up for months with more than 174,000 asylum claims lodged this year, almost a third of them from Syrians.”

“...The fact that the man wanted to attack soldiers is not necessarily unusual for an Islamist perpetrator, says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP): ‘The military is always part of the target spectrum.’ Uniformed soldiers are potentially more capable of defending themselves than average civilians and are therefore a riskier target. But: ‘An act against the military also brings the perpetrator even more 'fame' in terrorist propaganda.’ And: ‘Terrorists naturally also act according to the principle of capacity and opportunity. When an opportunity arises, they strike.’ Attacking soldiers during their lunch break and using the element of surprise could have been just such an opportunity.”