Attempt attempts in Ludwigshafen in 2016

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The attack attempts in Ludwigshafen 2016 took place on November 26th at the Christmas market and on December 5th at Rathausplatz in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Sequence of events

On November 26, 2016, a self-made explosive device made of sparklers and fireworks , which had been prepared with nails, was found at the Christmas market in Ludwigshafen . The detonation mechanism of the explosive device was defective, so that no explosion had occurred. On December 5, 2016, a backpack containing a similar explosive device was seized on Rathausplatz.

Investigations

The suspect is a twelve-year-old boy born in Ludwigshafen with a German and an Iraqi passport . Because of his age, he is not of criminal age under German law . According to media reports, he received instructions from the terrorist organization Islamic State via the smartphone text message service Telegram . Never before has there been such a young alleged perpetrator of an Islamist act in Germany .

According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the attack attempt is an example of new recruitment strategies for Islamist terrorists. In order to protect the best interests of the child, the Frankenthal public prosecutor left the case to the Federal Public Prosecutor . The boy has been in a secure facility since December 2016.

Assessments

Hans-Georg Maaßen , then President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , said about the case:

“We are dealing with the phenomenon that young people are radicalized or children are radicalized. And with Ludwigshafen we have seen that children are also abused, one could say, as instruments to commit terrorist attacks. "

Peter R. Neumann , Director of the “International Center for the Study of Radicalization” at King's College London , thought it conceivable that the boy, similar to other Islamist perpetrators of recent times, such as the knife attack by a 15-year-old in Hanover , at The bomb attack in Ansbach and during the attack on a regional train near Würzburg on July 18, 2016 "via messenger services in real time" was remote-controlled.

reporting

In addition to German media there were also international reports, among others, in The New York Times , in The Wall Street Journal and The Independent .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Attempts by a twelve-year-old in Ludwigshafen. In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved December 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Ludwigshafen: Twelve-year-old deposited explosive devices at the Christmas market . In: The time . December 16, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 19, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Twelve year old is said to have built a bomb, in: Frankfurter Rundschau of December 16, 2016, accessed on December 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ Germany Investigates if Boy, 12, Planted Bomb at Christmas Market, in: The New York Times, December 16, 2016, accessed December 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ Germany Avoids Attack After 12-Year-Old Boy's Explosive Fails to Detonate, in: The Wall Street Journal of December 16, 2016, accessed on December 24, 2016
  7. ↑ Isis Directs 12-year-old Boy to Attempt Bombing of German Christmas Market, in: The Independent of December 16, 2016, accessed December 24, 2016.