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Extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler says, while the perpetrator of the German Christmas market attack had been uniquely radicalised, they have been becoming more common since COVID-19.

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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "At least two people have died and several injured after a car was driven down a busy shopping street yesterday in Mannheim, in western Germany. A 40-year-old man has been arrested.

It is not clear yet if this attack was ideologically motivated. But car attacks like this are becoming horrifyingly common in Germany. In Magdeburg and Munich either side of last Christmas a total of seven people were murdered in two separate car rammings. In both cases, the suspected attackers were foreign nationals."

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March 4, 2025
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "The suspected driver in the Mannheim shooting rampage that left two people dead is a German from Ludwigshafen with a criminal record. The authorities are currently assuming that the 40-year-old has a mental illness. Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler with an assessment."

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March 4, 2025
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "This morning we look at this crime - what we know and what is still unclear. We also ask Hans-Jakob Schindler, security expert at the International Centre for Counter Terrorism, why cars are so often used as weapons."

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March 4, 2025
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"Phoenix moderator Hans-Werner Fittkau speaks with Hans-Jakob Schindler, terrorism expert at the Counter Extremism Project, about today's incident in Mannheim on March 3, 2025."

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March 3, 2025
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“Yesterday a car drove into a crowd in Munich. How do such incidents affect the feeling of security? And: The Munich Security Conference begins. In the Munich district of Maxvorstadt, a 24-year-old Afghan drove a vehicle into a crowd and injured numerous people. The suspected perpetrator, who had been in Germany since 2016 and whose asylum application was rejected, was arrested. Initial investigations indicate an Islamist motive. Could the crime have been prevented? Hans-Jakob Schindler is an expert on security and terrorism. In the podcast, he analyzes the current security situation in Germany and explains how it could be improved.”
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February 14, 2025
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“... Schindler is a terrorism expert and director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). " Cars were used on Christmas in Magdeburg and on New Year's Day in New Orleans. So it's not totally surprising that another car attack has been attempted," he says. According to the vice president of the Munich police headquarters, Christian Huber, the suspected attack in Munich happened like this: At around 10:30 a.m., a 24-year-old man drove behind the demonstration in his car, overtook a police car protecting the group, accelerated - and drove into the back of the demonstration.”

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February 14, 2025
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“A car drove into a demonstration in Munich. A terrorism expert believes the event could have been better secured. Shortly after the attack on a Verdi demonstration in Munich, much is still unclear. The suspect has been arrested, however, and there are already initial findings on him that point to terrorism. Several people's lives are in danger. It is the third attack in Germany within just two months. After Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg, the debate about security precautions and deportations is flaring up again - because the perpetrator was an asylum seeker from Afghanistan. In an interview with t-online, terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler also sees major shortcomings in security and contradicts Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.”
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February 14, 2025
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“Munich: Car drives into crowd - assessment by Hans-Jakob Schindler (terrorism expert for Counter Extremism Project)”
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February 13, 2025
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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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