{"id":631507,"date":"2025-12-14T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:52:15","slug":"germany-thwarts-islamist-plot-to-ram-vehicle-into-christmas-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631507\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany thwarts Islamist plot to ram vehicle into Christmas market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">German authorities said on Saturday they had arrested five men on suspicion of involvement in an Islamist plot to plough a vehicle into people at a Christmas market.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Officials have been on high alert during the festive season after a deadly car-ramming attack at a market in the city of Magdeburg last Christmas shocked the nation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Police and prosecutors said they had detained an Egyptian, three Moroccans and a Syrian on Friday over the plan to carry out the attack in southern Bavaria state.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Investigators suspect \u201can Islamist motive\u201d for the plot, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Egyptian, aged 56, was an imam at a mosque in the Dingolfing-Landau district, German newspaper Bild reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to authorities, he had called for an attack to be carried out on a Christmas market in the area \u201cusing a vehicle in order to kill or injure as many people as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German authorities said on Saturday they had arrested five men on suspicion of involvement in an Islamist plot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[38587,2574,131350,56261,195341,195346,2000,299,1824,94974,195342,195343,195344,161148,195345,27871],"class_list":{"0":"post-631507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bavaria","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-bild","11":"tag-christmas-market","12":"tag-dingolfing-landau-district","13":"tag-egyptian","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-islamist","18":"tag-joachim-herrmann","19":"tag-magdeburg","20":"tag-moroccans","21":"tag-syrian","22":"tag-taleb-jawad-al-abdulmohsen","23":"tag-vehicle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115716839428283459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631507","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=631507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}