Germany Arrests Syrian Migrants Who Planned Paris-Style Attack
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German police have seized three men for planning a Paris-style attack in Düsseldorf. The three men are Syrian migrants, all of whom had joined the Islamic State (ISIS) and at least one of whom was a suicide-vest maker. The plot was revealed to authorities when one of their co-conspirators turned himself in. At least one of the arrested was a refugee receiving government benefits from the very nation whose taxpayers he planned to murder. The Wall Street Journal reports:
The German prosecutor’s allegations indicate that Islamic State has been seeking to strike the West for years. Shortly after the [suspects] joined, the organization’s leadership ordered them to carry out an attack in the bustling central pedestrian zone of Düsseldorf, the prosecutor’s office said. The two plotted to attack one of the main streets with two suicide bombings and “to kill as many passersby as possible with guns and further explosives,” the prosecutor said.
All of the men seem to have slipped in through the refugee corridors, though only one was presenting himself as a refugee for the purpose of collecting benefits.
German authorities have claimed that the attacks were not going to target the upcoming major soccer matches, a point of significant vulnerability to terrorism. Rather, the plot centered on the Heinrich-Heine-Allee road in the center of the German city. Of course, that this plot did not target the soccer matches does not mean that there is not another plot that does.
The American Interest notes that the small percentages of refugees estimated to be terrorists in disguise will be no defense for the governments’ refugee policy if one of these attacks comes off.
It will be pointed out—and is true—that only a tiny fraction of Europe’s migrant population represent this kind of threat. But with machine guns and bombs, just a few bad actors can kill hundreds. If there is another attack like Paris, European public opinion will not coldly calculate the statistical relationship between refugees and terrorists. Unlike their elites, who derive a psychic benefit from seeing their countries be so generous, the European public sees this not as the “cost” of an otherwise-desirable “refugees welcome” policy, but an added downside to a situation that increasingly they deplore to begin with.
This time, the German police have scored a victory in the long war against Islamist terrorism. However, there is no guarantee that all such plots will be stopped. Had one of the men not turned himself in, there’s no reason to believe that this one would have been stopped. The risks associated with these refugee policies remains very great. Perhaps it is worth considering other means of addressing the crisis, especially given that importing these refugees to the West is far more expensive than caring for them in neighboring countries.
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