it was ten thousand eight hundred that s almost a tripling in seven years. and this is the salafist stronghold in germany the western state of north rhine-westphalia it s thought there are about three thousand salafist supporters here the regional intelligence agency classifies eight hundred of them as prone to violence authorities watch female salafist particularly carefully as wives and mothers they re important in holding the community together in two thousand and twelve a group of islam ists in germany were caught planning a bomb attack in bonn at least one of the group had salafist connections. salafist have taken to a german town centers preaching and handing out the koran for free in two thousand and sixteen the interior minister banned the group that had organized those giveaways. who will let me. and we don t want terrorism in germany we don t want calls for terrorism to be made here for people to be
it s one of the fastest growing branches of islam in germany that s what the federal domestic intelligence service says in two thousand and eleven german authorities knew of about three thousand eight hundred salafist in the country three years later that number was seven thousand. and by two thousand and seventeen it was ten thousand eight hundred that s almost a tripling in seven years. and this is the salafist stronghold in germany the western state of north rhine-westphalia it s thought there are about three thousand salafist supporters here the regional intelligence agency classifies eight hundred of them as prone to violence authorities watch female salafist particularly carefully as wives and mothers they re important in holding the community together in two thousand and twelve a group of islam ists in germany were caught planning a bomb attack in bonn at least one of the group had salafist connections. salafist
radicalized here and we don t want terrorism to be exported from germany. but just a month after that statement came this the berlin christmas market attack. anish amery drove a truck into the crowd killing twelve people the twenty four year old from tunisia allegedly belong to a salafist network german salafist even support fellow believers in prison binding them to the cause d. w. investigative reporters working on the story found a thriving network. and one of those investigative reporters this esther felt and welcome back to you what more did you find out about this extremist branch of islam within germany well basically everyone told us that we are actually in the third generation of the salafist movement in germany at first they started out doing the work that we just saw in the clip handing out. then later the scene became more violent and also we had
metro collapsed italian police say most of the injured were c.s.k. fans heading to their team s champions league game against a s. roma fire official say that the accident happened about an hour before kick off. the united nations human rights committee has ordered france to review legislation banning the niqab the full body islamic veil it follows complaints by two french women who were convicted in two thousand and twelve the committee found that of all dish proportionately harmed their right to practice their religion were here in germany a branch of islam known as cell of his own has been in the spotlight the ultra conservative movement has been growing in germany in recent years most followers are peaceful but some radical salafist have been linked to extremist attacks correspondence for the w. online and conducted in the best a geisha into the rise of jihad is salafism here in germany all this week you can
find their reports on. dot com. one of the reporters who have been investigating the salafist scene in germany is to my right right here with me at the big table my ts fund hein my deeds what led you to carry out this investigation to begin with saying is even though it was a so-called islamic state is basically defeated militarily we still live with the spread of islam is terrorism and much of the ideology driving islam is terrorism is salafi in nature it is salafi ideology of course not every salafist as you just said is going to be a terrorist but basically every islamist terrorist in europe over the last couple of years has. a radical background as have most of the people of all who