German Security Services Warn of Jihadist Attacks on Christmas Markets 

German Security Services Warn of Jihadist Attacks on Christmas Markets 

German security services fear Islamic terror attacks at this year’s Christmas markets across the country. On Thursday, Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser urged “great vigilance” during the Christmas celebrations in public.

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) warned that Islamic terrorist groups could target Christmas markets because they represent “Christian values” and are seen as an “embodiment of Western culture and way of life,” Germany’s public broadcaster DW TV reports.

In recent years, Christmas season in Germany has been marred by Jihadist terror threats. Last year, German police arrested two Islamic State-linked suspects for plotting to bomb a Christmas market in the city of Leverkusen. In 2016, an illegal Muslim migrant drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48.

The DW TV reported the latest Islamic terror threat:

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Thursday called for “great vigilance” at Germany’s popular Christmas markets.

“Federal security authorities do not currently have any concrete indications of danger,” she told the newspapers of the RND media group.

“But in view of the high threat situation at an abstract level we still have reason to be very vigilant and to take effective action for our security,” she said, adding that security authorities were monitoring “all conceivable threats.”

The minister thanked the regional police forces of Germany’s states for being “present in many places with such great commitment” to ensure security.

Faeser pointed to heightened security measures, including the enforcement of a strict knife ban at Christmas markets, with infringement being penalized by fines of up to €10,000 ($10,543). (…)

Germany’s BfV domestic security agency said that Germany remained a target for “various terrorist organizations” including the so-called “Islamic State” group.

It said that Christmas markets could be targeted due to their “symbolism” related to “Christian values” and as an “embodiment of Western culture and way of life.”

The agency said that the markets could serve as a suitable target for individuals with an “Islamist motive.

In May, an Allahu Akbar-screaming Afghan terrorist stabbed a policeman to death and injured several others in Mannheim. Later in August, a knife-wielding Islamic terrorist murdered three people to death at a ‘diversity’ festival in Solingen.

The knife crimes have sky-rocketed across Germany since former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the country’s borders to immigrants in the autumn of 2015. The data from “states showed that there were a total number of 26,113 knife attacks in Germany in 2023,” the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported late August.

The migrants now makes up to close to 20 percent of Germany’s 84 million population, changing country’s demography at a historic rate.

Amid mass-migration, the law and order situation has deteriorated so much that authorities in Berlin are now telling Jews and gays to hide their identity in city’s Arab-dominated areas, The Telegraph newspaper reported November 18:

Jews and gay people should hide their identity in parts of Berlin with large Arab populations, the German capital’s police chief has warned.

“There are areas of the city, we need to be perfectly honest here, where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay to be more careful,” said Barbara Slowik.

“There are certain neighbourhoods where the majority of people of Arab origin live, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups,” she said, adding that they were often “openly hostile towards Jews”.

In September, the German government was forced enforce immigration controls border crossings.

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