Two Decades Of Islamist Violence In Germany: A Timeline of Attacks And A Nation’s Reckoning
Saturday’s ramming attack by a Muslim man with known Islamist associations on the Berlin Pride festival — an attack in which he also attacked bystanders with a machete, killing one person and injuring several others — brings to mind the history in recent decades of Islamist attacks in Germany.Germany’s experience with Islamist terrorism has been a near-constant barrage of failed plots ranging from organized cells with international links to a more recent pattern of attacks carried out by individuals, often immigrants, acting alone with knives, vehicles, or improvised weapons.Below is a chronological account of the major incidents, compiled from court records, prosecutorial statements, and news coverage.In July 2006, a device planted in a suitcase aboard a regional train at Cologne’s central station failed to detonate because of a construction flaw, narrowly averting what could have been a mass-casualty bombing.The following year, in September 2007, Germany’s GSG 9 anti-terror unit broke up the so-called Sauerland Group, arresting two German converts to Islam and a Turkish national...
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