Lohberger Brigade

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The Lohberger Brigade or Lohberg Brigade is a group of around 25 people from the Salafist - jihadist scene in Dinslaken-Lohberg . Prosecutorial investigations were or are pending against some of this group of people . More than a dozen of these people were or have left for Syria . Some of them have returned to Germany. Before the group was formed, some of its members had radicalized among the Gray Wolves .

According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia, the name Brigade Lohberg became known through Internet propaganda . This is said to have used this term to describe a group that initially stayed together in Syria. The name suggests the existence of a cohesive group of German-speaking people. Nevertheless, no joint acts of violence by this group were known. However, reports emerged that members of this group had worked in a torture prison run by the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group and that some people in this group may have died, suggesting that they had also joined IS.

Former single home of the Alt-Lohberg factory estate, Steigerstraße 13, seat of the Dinslaken Institute for Education founded in 2011

These deceased people include Hasan D., Marcel L. and Mustafa K., about whom a picture of decapitated , allegedly Kurdish fighters in northern Syria circulated on the Internet . There are reports that Marcel L. was involved in the torture of prisoners in the service of the Islamic State. Hasan D. (alias Abū Ǧaʿfar al Almani ) was killed in the fighting over the northern Syrian city of Ain al-Arab (Kobanê) in the spring of 2015, according to security authorities . The IS magazine Dabiq paid tribute to his “heroic” life in 2016 in a German-language edition. He was the second chairman of an "educational association" called the Dinslaken Institute for Education , which the Lohberger Brigade had founded in Dinslaken-Lohberg in August 2011 and from which two dozen extremists later moved to Syria as volunteer fighters.

As a major player in the Lohberger Brigade from is Dinslaken originating convert Philip B. (aka Abu Usama al-Almani ) estimated. He was one of the first to leave North Rhine-Westphalia and committed himself to the Islamic State. He pledged his loyalty to his self-proclaimed “caliph” and called on his fellow believers to come to Syria and “do everything for Allah” in the fight against the infidels. There are indications that Philip B. blew himself up on August 5, 2014, southwest of the Iraqi city of Mosul, as a suicide bomber in a truck prepared with explosives, killing twenty Kurds with him.

In a trial before the Higher Regional Court in Celle , Nils D. (alias Abu Ibrahim al-Almani ), a convert and returnees from Syria of the Lohberger Brigade and cousin of Philip B., made extensive testimony in November 2015 about himself and other IS fighters. Accordingly, he left for Syria in 2013 and from April to November 2014 belonged to an ISIS special unit that persecuted, tortured and executed “ deserters ” from the Islamic State. He also worked as an IS prison guard. His testimony included reports of public shootings , beheadings and a crucifixion . They also led to the realization that the Lohberger Brigade met with the Millatu Ibrahim group from Solingen in Syria and sometimes operated there together in the civil war . At the beginning of March 2016, Nils D. was sentenced to a comparatively mild prison sentence of four and a half years by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court because of his confessions and statements. After a Syrian witness alleged that Nils D. had tortured three prisoners to death together with other men as a member of an IS "storm troop" in the prison of the northern Syrian city of Manbij in the second half of 2014 and then had their bodies removed in sacks Federal Prosecutor General initiated a new investigation that led to a new arrest warrant against Nils D. in 2018. Since September 4, 2019, Nils D. has to answer again before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court.

In November 2015, the media reported that Abdelhamid Abaaoud , who is considered the planner of the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris , lived with members of the Lohberg Brigade in a house in Aʿzāz in northern Syria in the spring of 2014 . In December 2015 it was reported that Hüseyin D., brother of Hasan D. and also a member of the Lohberger Brigade, had been put out to international search by German authorities in connection with the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015. He is said to have lived in a house with Abaaoud in Syria and to have been close friends with him. This is suggested by photos found on Nils D.

The liberal-Islamic religious educator Lamya Kaddor was disappointed to find in 2013 that five of the people who had joined the Lohberger Brigade and had gone to Syria had previously been students in their school experiment “Islamkunde in German language”, the previous model for today regular Islam lessons in North Rhine-Westphalia . In Dinslaken the integration "failed mercilessly", Salafism had become a youth movement there . As a cause of the Salafist extremism in Lohberg and other places in Germany stated Eyup Yildiz, the first deputy mayor of Dinslaken (SPD), a "bubble of religious and social isolation," which included a passion for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan belonged , as well as a "failed integration policy".

Web links

  • Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Report on the protection of the constitution for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for the year 2014 . 2nd, revised edition, Düsseldorf 2015, p. 146 f. ( PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDF magazine “Frontal 21”: Turkish fascists in Germany / Islamists of the so-called Dinslaken cell radicalized among gray wolves. (No longer available online.) ZDF, archived from the original on August 2, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was 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.zdf.de
  2. ↑ Martin Gehlen: Double offensive against IS in Syria . Article from June 8, 2016 in the portal stuttgarter-nachrichten.de , accessed on June 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Klaus Hummel, Michail Logvinov (ed.): Dangerous proximity: Salafism and jihadism in Germany . ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8382-6569-8 , p. 56.
  4. ↑ Ahmet Senyurt: The Voice of Terror in German . Article from February 29, 2016 in the portal br.de , accessed on June 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Anna Neifer: The secret police of the Islamic State . Article from January 27, 2016 in the portal motherboard. vice.com , accessed June 14, 2016.
  6. ↑ Anne K. Strickstrock: In action for the Islamic State: The departure of young people and young adults from Germany to Syria and Iraq . Article from December 11, 2014 in the portal bpb.de ( Federal Agency for Civic Education ), accessed on June 14, 2016.
  7. ↑ Christoph Ehrhardt: Three jihadists from Dinslaken perished . Article from January 11, 2015 in the faz.net portal , accessed on December 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ Jörg Diehl, Fidelius Schmid: IS key witness Nils D. in court: Failed, awakened and cut off . Article from January 20, 2016 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on June 14, 2016.
  9. ↑ Another German terrorist joining al Qaeda / FSA groups in syria to fight the infidels and establish an islamic state (caliphate) , website with video in the portal liveleak.com , accessed on June 13, 2016.
  10. ^ Christian Weisflog: From the garden city to the "terror nest" . Article from February 18, 2016 in the nzz.ch portal , accessed on June 13, 2016.
  11. ↑ Reiner Burger: The trace of "Millatu Ibrahim" . Article from November 29, 2015 in the faz.net portal , accessed on December 12, 2015.
  12. ↑ German IS returnees have to go to prison . Article from March 4, 2016 in the dw.com portal , accessed on March 6, 2016.
  13. ↑ Kristian Frigelj: “The very best in the world is martyrdom” . Article from March 4, 2016 in the welt.de portal , accessed on March 6, 2016.
  14. ↑ Deutscher allegedly tortured three IS prisoners to death , article from March 3, 2018 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on March 3, 2018
  15. ↑ Gerhard Piper: Terror career and criminal prosecution . Article dated September 17, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019
  16. ↑ Jörg Diehl, Fidelius Schmid: "Lohberger Brigade": Paris bombers had close contacts with German Islamists . Article from November 28, 2015 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on December 12, 2015.
  17. ^ Terror in Paris: Security forces are looking for German Islamists . Article from December 11, 2015 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on December 12, 2015.
  18. ↑ Ahmet Senyurt, Sebastian Kemnitzer: Traces and connections to Germany . Article dated December 2, 2015 in the br.de portal , accessed on December 12, 2015.
  19. ↑ Yassin Musharbash: "Not even the girlfriends suspected anything" . Interview with Lamya Kaddor, updated on May 24, 2013, accessed on the zeit.de portal on December 12, 2015.
  20. ↑ Lamya Kaddor : Ready to Kill: Why German Young People Are Going to Jihad . Piper Verlag, Munich / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-97055-6 .
  21. ↑ Islam teacher Lamya Kaddor and the "Lohberger Brigade" . Article from October 13, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on December 12, 2015.
  22. ^ Eva Berger: Lost in Lohberg . Article from March 31, 2015 in the taz.de portal , accessed on June 14, 2016.