"However, Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project at the International Center for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), urged caution in ruling out a wider network. “Obviously, everything is possible to do by yourself—you can rent a car by yourself, you can buy gas canisters by yourself, you can build an explosive device by yourself,” he explained. “But all these things in combination give the possibility of a wider support network, who were not in the car but helped the man prepare, and that is really important to determine,” Schindler told German media outlet DW.”"
"Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, told the BBC: “No car should come close, let alone be on a Christmas market. There has to have been a gap that no one realised needed to be closed.”"
"Local authorities believe the suspect acted alone, however Hans-Jakob Schindler - a counter-terrorism expert has said it's too early to dismiss that the driver was working with others.
The senior director of the Counter Extremism Project at the International Center for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) believed reports of a 'suspicious bag' could indicate that the suspect had help."
"Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says the gap that allowed the attacker to access the market must be "explored and rectified".
"No car should come close, let alone be on a Christmas market," he tells the BBC News channel."
On June 8, 2022, CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler joined JJ Green to discuss an incident during which a vehicle plowed into a crowd, killing a teacher and injuring students in Berlin, Germany. The incident remains under investigation.
"A teacher was killed and several of her students were injured Wednesday when a man, seemingly deliberately, drove his car into a group of pedestrians in Berlin.
On this week’s episode of 'The Hunt With WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,' Hans-Jakob Schindler — a senior adviser for the Counter Extremism Project who also lives and works in Berlin — explains what happened."
Four years ago, on August 17, 2017, Islamist terrorists drove a rented white van down Barcelona’s busy Las Ramblas boulevard at high speed, careering into pedestrians on the packed tourist street. The following day, five members of the same jihadist...
On March 22, 2017, terrorist assailant Khalid Masood killed five people during a vehicle and stabbing attack in London. The following day, a similar attack was thwarted in Antwerp, Belgium. On April 7, another assailant carried out a suspected...
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.