{"id":517678,"date":"2025-10-21T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/517678\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:59:15","slug":"german-far-right-extremist-planned-mass-attack-on-migrants-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/517678\/","title":{"rendered":"German far-right extremist planned mass attack on migrants, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BERLIN <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A German far-right extremist arrested last month planned to kill as many migrants as possible, citing Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik as his inspiration, media reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dan E., a former regional leader of the far-right party &#8220;Die Rechte,&#8221; was taken into custody in Berlin in late September after disclosing his plans, German officials told the Tagesspiegel newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old suspect told those around him he planned to kill migrants in large numbers, then die in a confrontation with police &#8212; a scenario known as &#8220;suicide by cop,&#8221; investigators said. He specifically cited Anders Breivik, the right-wing terrorist who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, as his inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>A prosecutor&#8217;s office spokesman confirmed the arrest to the regional broadcaster BR, adding that the suspect has been held in a psychiatric hospital since late last month. Prosecutors are investigating Dan E. on suspicion of disturbing public peace through threats of criminal acts, intimidation and weapons violations. A psychiatric evaluation is still pending, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bavaria-born suspect has lived in Berlin for several years and had ties to the right-wing extremist group &#8220;Deutsche Jugend Voran&#8221; (German Youth Forward), investigators said. Security agencies have warned in recent years about radicalized youth groups that blend ideological extremism with a willingness to use violence against perceived enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Official figures show that neo-Nazis and far-right extremists committed 42,788 crimes in Germany last year &#8212; the highest number in over a decade. They perpetrated 1,488 violent attacks against migrants, refugees, or political opponents, marking a 17% increase from the previous year. These attacks left at least 1,068 people injured.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN A German far-right extremist arrested last month planned to kill as many migrants as possible, citing Norwegian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[5340,2000,299,1824,35973],"class_list":{"0":"post-517678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-neo-nazis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115413697726138783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}