Of course they did. Authorities in Germany and all over the West want right-wing radicals to be responsible for societal unrest and disruption. They wish they were responsible. And since they don’t even admit jihad exists, they’re never prepared for the perpetrator to turn out to be an Islamic jihadi.
“After a bomb threat at Offenburg train station: the accused sympathized with the terrorist militia IS,” translated from “Nach Bombendrohung am Bahnhof Offenburg: Beschuldigter sympathisierte mit Terrormiliz IS,” by Jörg Seiler, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, April 21, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
What motivates an 18-year-old to threaten to bomb a train station? As a sympathizer of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia, the youth had already revealed himself in mid-January.
Did the bomb threat at the Offenburg train station have a political or religious background, or did an adolescent simply act out? On day two, after the large-scale police operation in tranquil Offenburg, the main suspect is now in custody.
On Wednesday, just a few hours after the large-scale police operation, the 18-year-old was brought before the magistrate at the Karlsruhe district court. According to Manuel Graulich, spokesman for the responsible law enforcement agency, he then issued the arrest warrant.
The 18-year-old is not a blank slate. In a joint press release, the public prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe and the police headquarters in Offenburg refer to an incident at the beginning of the year. On January 14, the suspect, who was still young at the time, was noticed because the police found a “deceptive-looking replica firearm” on him during a check.
And even then, the young man probably just barely escaped prison. “Against the accused, who at the time identified himself as a sympathizer with the terrorist militia IS, the public prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe obtained an arrest warrant in this context on account of the allegation of faking a criminal offence, which, however, was suspended against conditions,” the press release said.
This sheds at least some light on the social background of the 18-year-old, whom the police arrested on a regional train at around 8:50 p.m. after the bomb threat via a social network.
And with that, one speculation seems to be off the table: Does he perhaps belong to the spectrum of right-wing radicals, Corona deniers or to the circle of the extremist group that – as reported – planned the kidnapping of Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) as well as a coup? As Manuel Graulich explained to the editorial staff, there is “no connection whatsoever” to these groups.
Whether the 18-year-old was in a mental state of emergency is also the subject of the investigation. It is the normal catalog of questions that the investigating authorities are trying to clarify. As reported in detail, the supposed bomb threat in the late evening of April 19 called for a massive contingent of state and federal police, especially at the Offenburg train station.
Ansgar Gernsbeck, spokesman for the police headquarters in Offenburg, explained that the editors were even called in to support the police from the Freiburg and Constance headquarters. Specially trained dogs helped in the search for explosives. However, no such substances were found.
An eyewitness wrote on Facebook that the train and station had been evacuated. His comment: “Everything on site is like in the film.” The large-scale police operation in Offenburg caused by the bomb threat had serious effects, especially on long-distance rail traffic in the Rhine Valley. The Lahr train station was also closed for two hours.
In the initial scenario, the police assumed that the attack could also have been carried out there. After an intensive search of the station area, however, the all-clear was given after about two hours.
As a result, train traffic did not start moving for a long time. It was not until around 0.30 a.m. that regular services were possible again. Those who wanted to take the high-speed train ICE 377 from Berlin Ostbahnhof to Basel SBB, for example, needed patience. The train stopped for almost one and a half hours in Karlsruhe main station.
Wellington says
In one stupid way, these ignorant German authorities have stumbled into the truth, to wit, Islam is the one major religion which is Far Right. It is the spiritual predecessor of Nazism—master faith v. master race and all that nonsense (and yes, Nazism after the Night of the Long Knives, June 1934, was pure Far Right and by now one knows this or should know it and I am tired of arguing with those who don’t).
Another point: I think it extremely sloppy to refer to any Far Right group, secular or religious, as “radicals.” Such confused and disturbed people are “reactionaries,” not radicals.
Nomenclature is important as is language in general (kinda’ lost in our era when you can, in full idiotic mode, actually make up your own pronouns—but I digress). In any case, it is my considered point of view that those on the Far Left (e.g., AOC) are radicals and those on the Far Right (e.g., your standard excessively devout Muslim) are reactionaries. Both will destroy freedom, that is a common denominator between the two, and there are others, but I make this distinction and believe myself correct here.
Hey, words matter. At least I hope they still continue to be but who knows existing as we do in the weird time we most certainly live in, whereby Islam is exculpated of its many errors in the name of tolerance but 6 year-olds can be taught that being a boy or girl is full of options. I rest my case. For now. Will be back.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Thanks for emphasizing the differences between radicals and reactionaries.
I agree, sloppy language is not helpful.
somehistory says
A rich lady is robbed, her diamonds are stolen right off her neck. The usual suspects, Cary Grant and the French girl…or was she Italian?…(as in the film…”To Catch a Thief..) are brought in…
no wait,…the police picked up two men collecting garbage behind the nearby convenience store.
This guy is 18, but was noticed in January…”he was still young at the time.” He had some kind of “replica of a firearm”…whatever that means…and now he has a bomb. Climbing the ladder of violence.
Now, “corona deniers” are suspects in train bombings. wow.
what “film” are the authorities referencing, btw?
Pray Hard says
Just the typical lie/knee jerk reaction …
gravenimage says
Germany: Muslim stops train traffic with bomb threat, politicians and press initially suspected right-wing radicals
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*Based on what*? Wishful thinking?
More:
What motivates an 18-year-old to threaten to bomb a train station? As a sympathizer of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia, the youth had already revealed himself in mid-January.
Did the bomb threat at the Offenburg train station have a political or religious background, or did an adolescent simply act out?
……………
Adolescents can sometimes be pretty destructive. But a *bomb threat*? This isn’t like breaking light fixtures, kicking over trash cans, or swiping candy bars from the news stand…
Andrew Blackadder says
I stopped forwarding articles like this or similar news reports to old (ex) friends in Bavaria Germany as they say these threats are just a few crazies or that they have muslim friends or basically that I am an islamowhatsit and they want no more contact with me as Im a racist.
I hope one day to get an email from them telling me they have realized that what I have been telling them is the actual destruction of Germany and that these muslims are just Nazis in turbans.
I merely tell them what islamic leaders are saying, out in the open, I am just repeating their words to my friends in Bavaria, but they dont get that information in their news feed.
Meanwhile they feel such deep shame about what their Fathers and Grandfathers did over 70 plus years ago. islamism and nazism are bed fellows but they cant see that connection.
Rufolino says
Andrew:- “None so blind as those that don’t want to see.”
Have known many that don’t want to see what’s in front of them, and therefore don’t see it.
OLD GUY says
That’s how they fall over the cliff every time.
James Lincoln says
Andrew,
Your ex-friends first have to come to the realization that they have been wrong about islam and muslim migration.
Some may, others may not – even when broadsided with overwhelming evidence.
gravenimage says
Very sad, Andrew.