German soldier 'posed as Syrian asylum-seeker to carry out terror attack and blame it on refugees' [View all]
Source: Daily Telegraph
An officer in the German army who spent more than a year posing as a Syrian refugee has been arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack.
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Police are believed to be working on the theory that the officer, who has a history of expressing anti-foreigner views, planned to carry out a “false flag” terror attack and blame it on refugees.
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The officer first came to the authorities’ attention in February, when he was arrested by Austrian police after being caught trying to hide a gun in a toilet at Vienna airport.
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Prosectors were at a loss to explain how he was able to register as a Syrian asylum-seeker despite the fact he speaks no Arabic and is not believed to be of Syrian origin. The authorities raised no suspicion at the time of his application.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/27/german-soldier-spent-year-posing-syrian-refugee-arrested-suspicion/
This is really screwed up. Not an Arabic speaker, but able to register as a refugee, given a place in a shelter and was apparently paid some benefits too; all while he's a lieutenant in the German Army. Then he is caught trying to hid a gun in an airport, and they let him walk away! They only arrested him 2 months later.
If it were a TV series plot, I'd have called it too far-fetched ...
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