according to reports from the SZ, NDR and WDR, the suspect, Abdul B., had been classified as an Islamist “threat”. Security authorities therefore assessed him as having been radicalised and prone to violence.
He is alleged to have attempted to travel to Syria to join the “Islamic State”. According to reports, he was arrested at Berlin’s BER Airport in late 2025 whilst returning from Lebanon. According to investigative sources, he is said to have been held in pre-trial detention until May 2026 on suspicion of preparing a terrorist offence.
According to reports by NDR, WDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the suspect, Abdul B., had been required to attend sessions with a deradicalisation counselling centre. The newspaper Die Welt was the first to report on this. He was currently still undergoing what is known as a ‘clearing process’. This means that the counselling centre, an NGO, had not yet decided whether to accept him as a client. According to the report, only two sessions had taken place so far, with the third due to follow next week. These had initially been voluntary. During the counselling sessions, B. is said to have proved to be a complex case in terms of his ideological stance. Although he had been friendly and cooperative, the counsellors had harboured doubts about the sincerity of the discussions.
According to information from rbb, the suspected perpetrator, who had fled, was apparently shot dead during a police operation at an allotment garden in Spandau.
Then we hope for a speedy arrest and a lengthy prison sentence including de-radicalization therapy.
It’s rather bitter that
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Update from RBB