新湖畔网 （随信APP) | 在德国拘留一名利比亚人，涉嫌策划袭击以色列大使馆

一名警察站在柏林以色列大使馆前把守-版权归AFP约翰·麦克道尔所有

德国检察官周日表示，他们逮捕了一名利比亚男子，涉嫌与伊斯兰国有联系，并计划用枪支袭击柏林的以色列大使馆。

只被称为奥马尔·A.的嫌犯已于周六晚在柏林郊外伯瑙的家中被逮捕，联邦检察官办公室称。

这名28岁的嫌犯被控“支持外国恐怖组织”，检察官称他是伊斯兰国的信徒。

检察官表示，奥马尔·A.计划对柏林以色列大使馆进行“高调的枪击袭击”。

奥马尔·A.据说为此做好了准备，曾在邮件聊天中与一名IS成员进行过“交流”。

根据检察官的说法，嫌疑人将在周日被带到法官面前决定是否羁押。

德国总理奥拉夫·肖尔茨在X上写道，“我要感谢我们的安全部门阻止了一起卑劣的袭击计划。我们不会放松对恐怖主义的打击”。

当局称他们周六搜查了奥马尔·A.在伯瑙的家。他们还搜查了另一名“不涉嫌”参与所谓计划的人的波恩附近的财产。

德国媒体称，波恩附近桑克特奥古斯丁镇的公寓属于嫌疑人的叔叔，他被视为目击者。

- 寻求庇护 -

据当地媒体报道，德国当局在一家外国情报机构的提醒下逮捕了奥马尔·A.，并补充说他在德国没有出现在任何激进分子名单上。

据一位政府消息人士告诉法新社，嫌犯据说于2022年11月进入德国，并于次年1月提出庇护申请。

这一申请在2023年9月被拒绝，意味着奥马尔·A.将被要求离开该国，消息人士表示。

这名嫌犯的移民身份类似于去年8月在德国一次节日刺杀事件的涉案人士。

发生在索林根西部城市的袭击造成三人死亡，当局试图将避开德国当局的叙利亚嫌犯驱逐出境后引发公众愤怒。

柏林政府对此作出了更严格的刀具法规和更强硬的移民立场。议员们周五通过了一项规定，取消了将被驱逐到其他欧盟国家的寻求庇护者提供的福利。

- “最大警惕” -

对逮捕消息作出回应，以色列驻柏林大使表示：“穆斯林反犹太主义不再只是仇恨言论。它导致并鼓励着全球的恐怖主义活动。”

大使罗恩·普罗索在大使馆社交媒体平台X上发布的一条信息中表示，以色列大使馆是“外交战场的前线”。

内政部长南希·费泽尔表示，保护在德国的犹太和以色列机构对我们来说“至关重要”。

法埃瑟表示，执法部门正在以“最大警惕”行动，防止任何涉嫌的“伊斯兰、反犹和反以色列暴力”。

自2023年10月7日哈马斯袭击以色列以及以色列对加沙的报复破坏以来，德国当局加大了对可能的伊斯兰主义威胁和反犹主义的警惕程度。

九月初，慕尼黑警方击毙了一名因与激进伊斯兰主义有联系而臭名昭著的奥地利男子，后者在以色列领事馆和警察开枪。

十月初，丹麦以色列大使馆附近发生爆炸，瑞典以色列使团附近发生枪击事件。

A police officer stands guard in front of the Israeli embassy in Berlin - Copyright AFP John MACDOUGALL

German prosecutors said Sunday they had arrested a Libyan man on suspicion of having links to the Islamic State group and planning to attack the Israeli embassy in Berlin with firearms.

The suspect, identified only as Omar A., was arrested on Saturday evening at his home in Bernau, just outside the German capital, the federal prosecutors’ office said.

The 28-year-old was accused of “supporting a foreign terrorist organization” and was said by prosecutors to be an adherent to the ideology of the Islamic State group.

Prosecutors said Omar A. was planning a “high-profile attack with firearms” on the Israeli embassy in Berlin.

As part of his preparations, Omar A. was said to have had “exchanges with a member of IS in a messenger chat”.

The suspect was set on Sunday to be put before a judge who would decide if he should be remanded in custody, according to prosecutors.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X that he “would like to thank our security authorities for preventing a cowardly attack plan. We will not let up in the fight against terrorism”.

Authorities said they searched the suspect’s home in Bernau on Saturday. They also searched the property near Bonn of another person “not suspected” of involvement in the alleged plan.

German media said the flat in the town of Sankt Augustin near Bonn belonged to the suspect’s uncle, who was being treated as a witness.

– Asylum request –

German authorities arrested Omar A. after a tip-off from a foreign intelligence agency, according to local media, adding that he had not been on any militant watchlist in Germany.

The suspect was said to have entered Germany in November 2022 and to have made a request for asylum the following January, a government source told AFP.

This was rejected in September 2023, meaning Omar A. would have been required to leave the country, the source said.

The suspect’s immigration status is similar to that of the alleged perpetrator of a deadly stabbing at a festival in Germany in August.

The attack in the western city of Solingen, which left three people dead, caused public outrage after it was revealed that the Syrian suspect had evaded authorities’ attempts to remove him from Germany.

The government in Berlin has responded with stricter knife laws and a tougher line on immigration. MPs on Friday passed rules which remove benefits offered to asylum seekers who are set to be deported to other EU countries.

– ‘Utmost vigilance’ –

Responding to news of the arrest, Israel’s ambassador to Berlin said: “Muslim anti-Semitism is no longer just hate rhetoric. It leads to and encourages terrorist activities worldwide.”

Israeli embassies were “on the front line of the diplomatic battlefield”, ambassador Ron Prosor said in a message posted by the embassy on social media platform X.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said protecting Jewish and Israeli institutions in Germany was “of the utmost importance to us”.

Law enforcement were acting with the “utmost vigilance” to prevent any suspected “Islamist, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel violence”, Faeser said.

Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s retaliatory onslaught on Gaza, German authorities have increased vigilance about possible Islamist threats and anti-Semitism.

In early September, Munich police shot dead a young Austrian man known for his links to radical Islamism after he opened fire at the Israeli consulate and on police.

In early October, there were explosions near the Israeli embassy in Denmark and gunfire near its mission in Sweden.