Germans warned of Toulouse-style terror

As France takes stock after a shoot-out on Thursday which killed the man believed to have murdered seven, including three Jewish children and a rabbi, Germans were warned they could face the same horror on their streets.As France takes stock after a shoot-out on Thursday which killed the man believed to have murdered seven, including three Jewish children and a rabbi, Germans were warned they could face the same horror on their streets.

Mohammed Merah, a French citizen of Algerian descent, proclaimed allegiance to al Qaida during a siege in Toulouse after he admitted having killed four people at a nearby Jewish school. Police also believe Merah murdered three French soldiers.

He died in a hail of bullets as French police stormed the apartment where he had been holed up for 31 hours in the southwest French city.

Such attacks could take place in Germany, said Rainer Wendt, chairman of the DPolG police union.

He told the business daily Handelsblatt that 250 of “roughly 1,000 sympathisers of Jihad-terrorism in Germany" had received attended terrorist training camps on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

But it is impossible for security agencies to keep a round-the-clock observation of these 250 people. “In this respect it is of course possible at any time that also in Germany a radicalized single perpetrator commits such actions like in Toulouse,” said Wendt.

He called for politicians to make training in so-called “terror camps” a crime in Germany. Read More