Eric Breininger

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Eric Breininger alias Abdul Gaffar el-Almani (born August 3, 1987 in Neunkirchen (Saar) ; † probably April 30, 2010 with Mir Ali , Pakistan ) was a German with an Islamic religion who was wanted by the Federal Criminal Police Office for terrorist activities . He had contacts with members of the Sauerland group and has probably been in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2008 . He is believed to have been killed in fighting near Mir Ali in the Pakistani-administered tribal area in late April 2010 .

Life

After his parents divorced, Eric Breininger lived with his older sister and mother in Neunkirchen in Saarland . First he attended business school at the commercial vocational training center in Neunkirchen and wanted to become an industrial clerk. In his spare time he played in a football club.

Eric Breininger later worked as a parcel driver for a transport company, where he met his Pakistani colleague Anis P. in early 2007 . This made him familiar with a radical interpretation of the Koran. After a few months, Breininger left business school and converted to Sunni Islam . As a result of this change, he broke off his social contacts in Germany. He had a quarrel with his family and moved with his like-minded colleague Daniel Schneider into a shared apartment in Saarbrücken - Dudweiler .

Daniel Schneider, who was busy procuring material for the construction of explosives, was arrested in September 2007 with his comrades Fritz Gelowicz and Adem Yılmaz in a holiday home in the Sauerland on suspicion of terrorism. Eric Breininger had already gone underground and traveled to Cairo to study languages . In November 2007 he then traveled with the Islamist Houssain al-M, who was also from Germany. via Dubai to Iran and from there apparently on to Afghanistan. In March 2008, Breininger emailed his sister to inform him that he was in the Pakistani mountains and wanted to continue to Afghanistan.

He was sent to a training camp run by the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an underground organization that has contacts with the Taliban and al-Qaeda . On the night of May 3, 2010, a jihadist terrorist group reported that the German Islamist Eric Breininger had died on April 30. After his death, the Taliban spread his unfinished memoir "Mein Weg nach Jannah" on the Internet as propaganda.

Stay in Afghanistan or Pakistan

According to the German Federal Criminal Police Office , the Iranian secret service smuggled the Saarlander into a Pakistani terror camp in 2007. Accordingly, Iranian agents had given the then 20-year-old the necessary visa. At the time, Breininger traveled by taxi via the city of Bam to the Pakistani border. Eric Breininger completed training with firearms and explosives and appeared several times in the terror group's propaganda videos in spring 2008. In May 2008 he was with his friend Houssain al-M., Who asked him questions about his plans to be seen in a video message. He appeared under the Islamic name of Abdul Gaffar el-Almani , justified the terrorism of the IJU as Islam's self-defense against an alleged Western crusade and announced that he would be a suicide bomber.

On October 21, 2008, Eric Breininger was seen in a video of almost six minutes in which he declared that he was not planning an attack against Germany himself.

On August 18, 2009 the media once again spoke of Breininer's sign of life. Allegedly, a short message to like-minded comrades could be read in the relevant forums, in which he thanked everyone who "supported the mujahideen". Breininger, wanted by the BKA at the time and suspected in Afghanistan, sent "Greetings from Afghanistan" and a photo that showed him sitting in front of a laptop. It was unclear whether the message actually came from the German himself. Security authorities suspected that Breininger was now primarily used as a propaganda instrument by his group IJU to recruit further Western supporters.

On September 11th, 2009, a video of a Turkish-dominated group was filmed by an organization called Elif Media , in which Breininger calls for a “holy war” and for donations for his group. The video, apparently shot at the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan , also shows Breininger slaughtering a sheep. In almost all scenes he holds a Kalashnikov rifle in his hand. The language of the video changes between German and Turkish. Since the publication, as in the last one from August 2009, lacks any reference to the IJU, analysts in German news services recently assumed that Breininger was no longer at the IJU.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. German Islamist apparently killed in combat. Focus, May 3, 2010, accessed December 1, 2011 .
  2. ^ A b Philipp Lichterbeck: The jihadist from Germany ; The daily mirror of October 20, 2008
  3. ZDF interview with Eric Breininger's sister from May 9, 2008 as an excerpt ( memento of the original from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dailynet.de
  4. a b Yassin Musharbash: Log of al-Qaida. One man, one animal. spiegel.de, October 13, 2009, accessed December 1, 2011 .
  5. ^ Yassin Musharbash: German Islamist. Jihadists report the death of Eric Breininger. spiegel.de, May 3, 2010, accessed December 1, 2011 .
  6. Tagesspiegel - Young and pious in death from May 7, 2010
  7. ^ Contact with the Iranian secret service. focus.de, May 8, 2010, accessed December 1, 2011 .
  8. ^ Yassin Musharbash : German jihadist greets from Afghanistan ; in: Der Spiegel from August 18, 2009
  9. ^ G. Lachmann, F. Flade: Islamist Breininger sends new terror message ; Welt Online , September 11, 2009.