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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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“How can we prevent what happened in Munich this week in the future? In an interview, terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler makes three demands. Mr. Schindler, Mannheim, Solingen, Magdeburg, Aschaffenburg - and now an attack in Munich... Hans-Jakob Schindler: You're forgetting the attack in Munich in September 2024, when the Islamist shot at the consulate in Munich and the Nazi Documentation Center with a rifle. Munich has been affected for the second time now. That's six attacks in ten months. That's pretty serious.”
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February 14, 2025
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“It was the sixth apparently extremist-motivated attack in just over ten months: on Thursday morning in Munich, an Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a demonstration by the Verdi trade union. According to police, at least 36 people were injured, some of them seriously, including a child. Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) spoke of a "serious attack"... "This is not just a perceived increase, but a fact," Hans-Jakob Schindler, head of the Counter Extremism Project, a think tank for extremism research, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. "Six attacks in around ten months - I have never experienced anything like this in my entire career." Terrorism expert Schindler believes that such connections are absurd, he says. Rather, he says that several factors are coming together. On the one hand, says Schindler, the Islamists currently see themselves as the winners and are particularly motivated: "In their logic, they drove the Americans out of Afghanistan and threw Russia and Iran out of Syria," says Schindler. "They think that nobody can harm them."”
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February 14, 2025
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“Yesterday a car drove into a crowd in Munich. How do such incidents affect the feeling of security? And: The Munich Security Conference begins. In the Munich district of Maxvorstadt, a 24-year-old Afghan drove a vehicle into a crowd and injured numerous people. The suspected perpetrator, who had been in Germany since 2016 and whose asylum application was rejected, was arrested. Initial investigations indicate an Islamist motive. Could the crime have been prevented? Hans-Jakob Schindler is an expert on security and terrorism. In the podcast, he analyzes the current security situation in Germany and explains how it could be improved.”
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February 14, 2025
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"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a terrorism analyst at the non-profit Counter Extremism Project, said that a prospective Gaza occupation has angered the far right “more than any other issue has in 2025 so far”.
“White supremacist online propagandists have reacted to Trump’s idea to take over Gaza with disgust and have stated that it is an act of betrayal,” he said. “The proposal is being portrayed as Trump sending white Americans to die on behalf of Israel.”"
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February 14, 2025
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“... Schindler is a terrorism expert and director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). " Cars were used on Christmas in Magdeburg and on New Year's Day in New Orleans. So it's not totally surprising that another car attack has been attempted," he says. According to the vice president of the Munich police headquarters, Christian Huber, the suspected attack in Munich happened like this: At around 10:30 a.m., a 24-year-old man drove behind the demonstration in his car, overtook a police car protecting the group, accelerated - and drove into the back of the demonstration.”
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February 14, 2025
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“A car drove into a demonstration in Munich. A terrorism expert believes the event could have been better secured. Shortly after the attack on a Verdi demonstration in Munich, much is still unclear. The suspect has been arrested, however, and there are already initial findings on him that point to terrorism. Several people's lives are in danger. It is the third attack in Germany within just two months. After Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg, the debate about security precautions and deportations is flaring up again - because the perpetrator was an asylum seeker from Afghanistan. In an interview with t-online, terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler also sees major shortcomings in security and contradicts Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.”
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February 14, 2025
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“Many people are still surprised by the power that the so-called big techs have been accumulating in the “globalized” world. In the second Trump administration, this became more than explicit. A report by Forum, in fact, showed that the wealth of millionaires increased three times faster in 2024, all of them owners of technology companies, according to the Oxfam report "At whose expense? – The origin of wealth and the construction of injustice in colonialism”, in addition to giving in advance the direct millionaire investment of the owners of big techs to the inauguration of the Republican president… Algorithms that lead people to extremism: The dossier mentions a study by the Counter Extremism Project, which exposes how YouTube's algorithm favors disinformation, conspiracy theories and extremism. The same occurs with Twitter, TikTok and Meta.”
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February 14, 2025
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CEP Non-Resident Fellow Ari Heistein writes: "Some analysts have suggested that assassinating Abdul-Malik al-Houthi would lead to organizational collapse and thereby eliminate the threat. It is common practice, to the point of being cliché, for analysts to make a very generic but concrete policy prescription that boils down to “kill the guy in charge and all your problems with the group are solved.” But the reality is that the Houthi movement has become institutionalized, which makes it more organizationally resilient, and it has not been significantly disrupted by high-level assassinations in the past. So, while eliminating the Houthi leader would be a welcome development, it is unlikely in and of itself to provide a comprehensive solution to the threats posed by the group."
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February 13, 2025
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“Munich: Car drives into crowd - assessment by Hans-Jakob Schindler (terrorism expert for Counter Extremism Project)”
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February 13, 2025
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