Is preparing an attack there was terrorists dont just aim to kill a lot of people do but also to attract a big audience. The threat to germany has changed in recent years. Tell what is toy to the day terrorism is all about small operations with little logistical effort. Of course islam is terrorism remains the dangers but there is also the growing threat of rightwing to terrorism. They intervene when no one else can help g. S. T. 9 geminis police unit. I would like people to be less afraid because they know that were here if you say you know. Right now. Does g. S. T. Not make germany safe we all follow these men on their daily routine you know kind of mushy theyre not machines they have feelings. So i have written that said well there are some my family. No t. V. Crew has ever got so close to g s g 9. Near bonn the former german capital. Lots of carports and freshly trimmed front gardens. This is also the headquarters of a special unit of germanys federal police the Border Protection group g s g 9. More than the all of them i was hired here at the base ive seen the chance change 9 guys through the fence and wondered what kind of people i work with. See them in movies videos and documentaries. But then you see them at lunch or driving to shooting practice and you think thats cool. Meanwhile the commander arrives at the side gate. For me this is how the day usually starts and its a pleasant retain a minimal otaku on. It gives you a chance to gather your thoughts and think about what you can expect over the next few hours and then talk. To but lots of people start their day at work like this. The fall of the 3rd squad of g. S. T. 9 for an entire summer and got to know them well. Most of their work is top secret its the nature of their mission and thats why d. S. D. 9 insisted on prior approval of all the videos shown in this report. Of women will take the case. Dont stop filming please. Accept for the commander we cannot reveal the identities of any other g. S. T. 9 member. To. Getting a real insight into what we do here. The way beyond how we live. But i think that everyone will understand why we cant show our faces from time to. Roll call for the 3rd squad. Point. We cant reveal exactly how many men are in this unit. G s g 9 takes on about 30 missions a year during downtime they train. Today theyll be using a practice every nation. A little over 3 102234 the tango. Plus 30223 f. X. X. And 309 millimeter f. X. Almost a 1000 rounds enough to eliminate a large number of terrorists months someone to. Think has just an alias the men of genius 290 have nicknames. You know. People get a nickname during training. Might be linked to something thats happened to them or to their real name. And theyll keep that nickname the entire time that. The g. s to 9 members have aliases like granny all neat and well then the squad leader is called mopsy. Commanders are home folks is also taking part in the exercise hes been the head of genius tonight for 5 years he spends most of his time in meetings but today hes right in the thick of things. We have a heavily armed perpetrator in a building that can only be reached from the air. Theyve got the entrances are barricaded and possibly booby trapped. So well have to get in through the roof with. The choppers to make our approach. Meanwhile somewhere in berlin. A terrorist is planning an attack. He gets his instructions from the member of the socalled Islamic State his plan an attack that involves the use of the powerful toxin rice and. The terrorist wants to use a homemade explosive to spread the rice and this is only an exercise but it has similarities with the real case weve seen far. In attack in which russell is you should have a devastating effect if i were not talking about the deaths of several people just pushing vengeful it would be much more seriously and that is with me from guns under once in all your movie scenes at langley was an operation weve long known from intelligence reports that terrorist groups are trying to carry out attacks with nuclear biological and chemical weapons im still can tell and we know from the rice in case that it can be a fairly simple operation and for horses. Anyone can legally order the ingredients with this kind of biological weapon on the internet raisen as extracted from plant seeds in 2018 a terrorist in cologne was preparing a rice an attack but police managed to prevent it. Below the middle do you skip many of these substances including nitrogen and other fertilisers are used as part of a completely legal activity. This is so the authorities cant ban them outright our job is to find out whether these materials are going to be. Used illegally. As. Germanys interior ministry believes that coordinated simultaneous terrorist attacks such as took place in paris and 2015 or in brussels a year later unlikely right now. Its hard. To know how for a long time we dont with terrorists who try to organize attacks that would kill as many people as possible. Those attacks also involved elaborate planning. But then they switched to what we call low threshold operations which are less complex and target a smaller number of people. That was what happened in 2016 in central but then when the nice henri plowed a stolen truck into the Christmas Market there killing 12 people. Although the socalled Islamic State has been defeated militarily there are almost 300 islamists in germany alone and Police Believe that they could attack at any time you know lets. Move. All that i ask and try to do now is to hurt us in our own countries that includes small individual attacks and individual murders and all to. Germany faces a number of threats not only the danger of islamist terrorism but also an increased risk of right wing attacks was. The magnitude of that danger was brought into focus by the october 29000. 00 synagogue attack and the murder of. A few months. Later problems of right wing extremism and terrorism have been ignored for a long time. Ago doesnt really learned nothing from the end as you scan. Just a minute. In fact i believe that were seeing just the tip of the iceberg. We dont know yet how great the threat really is. Is to destroy 9 squad leader mopsy and his men train every day to deal with these situations. In this drill gunmen have dug in at an Industrial Park and are shooting at innocent civilians its just a Training Exercise but the tension is still real the squad doesnt know the terrain theyre under extreme time pressure and they know that the assailants will stop at nothing you mean obviously if my men have no idea what theyre getting into they face a lot of risks in similar situations when the. Things are tense. In Training Missions we do things that you cant prepare for. You create conditions that put the squad under simulated pressure. Theres a lot of psychological stress. These men can dive dropping by parachute or of hell from a helicopter in seconds while carrying 35 kilos of equipment on their backs. There are about 400 men in g s g 9 their job is to deal effectively with terrorists hostage takers heavily armed criminals. We do a lot of training and shooting a few so we can avoid the latter if possible and real washington was our. G. S. T. 9 reports directly to the interior ministry and can be deployed at home and abroad its mission is to secure as much evidence as possible while keeping Collateral Damage to a minimum for most fish you can easily learn the skills necessary for this job for youve got to have a high level of social competence the psychological strength to deal with stress. And above all the ability to work very well. In team and on the net so our country i. Dont want to be ramblers here we have to be cautious we cant just rush in and blow everything up as from this is that no ones going to open fire unless theyre in an immediate threat situation as a scorched operations. Since it was founded in the early 970. 00 s. Geas to 9 has carried out almost 2000 missions they claim to have fired their weapons just 8 times. Just to 9 functions like a well coached sports team they work out a rough strategy in advance but can adapt to situations they encounter in the field. To maximize the sense of trust in the squad they run drills like this one. It also helps them to subdue you the human instinct to flee when facing deponents you have to be aware of whats out there especially when youre being shot at. But if we werent afraid wed be the wrong people for the job. But to shoot in the end of course we feel fear but we train a lot to counteract the Training Exercises help us to control that fear when things start happening can we go through or not if i think you communicated well we covered you it worked fine for us but how was it for you before going to know. Mopsy is 421 of the oldest members in the unit he joined what was then the federal Border Police 24 years ago and then passed the Entrance Exam for g s g 9. Hes been on 50 Missions Including operations in money to rock the phone number. For 3 or 4 months i think when i probably could have been a firefighter or another medic flipping me down or mentions who havent i just enjoy helping people remind us often i can do that with these units at a very high level thats very satisfying or. It was a nice job really means a lot to me as a baby daughter doesnt feel. Yet a terrorist is scouting locations he wants to kill as many people as possible and he wants to attract attention to. Those mr wilder terrorism as an act of violence its main aim is to use symbolic highly visible dramatic acts of violence to spread fear among the public. Its all done for effect its a communicational strategy that sends a message to a target audience and super people. Its designed to affect how people use a public space or public transport go to work in. The terrorist wants to launch his rice an attack in berlin because of the citys symbolic importance as germanys capital. In the world who and parliament and cities like carolyn that are hometown. Parliament and many other institutions places with lots going on are attractive to vault of twentys or guns institutes who want to hear but exactly that makes them a prime target for terrorists offer tourists not hochtief. Terrilyn hasnt had a counterterrorism unit up to now and thats something were having to change. In the car doors of g. S. T. And 9 squads 3 no one suspects that an attack is imminent youve been practicing in secret all this time. I was. Every member of g s g 9 has its own bunk in the sand augustine barracks although most live with their families nearby only a few actually sleep here. It smells of homemade curry the men spend more time in the barracks than anywhere else. How many barracks. In the ocean probably 5. To morrow zorros going to the u. K. For 3 weeks Training Exercise. As part of through and also im packing for an assignment in britain to tell you. The truth. Im going to take it easy. With the british army in more equal time in. Hospitals what does that mean. He stands for explosive methods of entry. But if the course deals with all the different ways that you could open up a target location and get into it. Like almost everyone in the squad and zorro are married and have children and your wife will look after the kids. Yeah as usual. People talk a lot about Work Life Balance but all we do is work its tough to find a balance. And these men usually share the most intense moments of their lives with their colleagues not with their families sometimes wives and children feel left out. Michel is 1st minute you cant talk to them about a lot of the work you do hear from you have the right sometimes they wouldnt understand anyway. Its an entirely different world. Id rather talk about it with a colleague theyre sort of like a 2nd family because of course this can cause problems because your real family says that youre shutting them out. Of the. G. S. T. 9 men craig sample cant really stay at home to look after a sick child and the men enjoy their work so much that the commander sometimes has to order them to stop but the. I tell them to be careful not to mess up their family life. And if your wifes having a baby you stay home with her. In extreme cases ive had many call up and ask whether they should come into work. My job as a supervisor is easy i dont have to motivate my team the hard part is to slow them down and sometimes to protect them from themselves. This is my. She worked as a key. She has to be 9 for 13 years and retired a couple of years ago but she still stops by often to visit once a team member always a team member. My question is some of these guys are young enough to be our son thats. The way i see it anyway are busy and that is i thought id have to tell them move those trying racks out of the courtyard we have to clean the floors now. With the you also develop a certain level of trust so. The guys would leave their stuff lying around. And if youve been working on the same floor for years like me. Or you others. Guys learn to trust you. There are no women engineers to 9 operational units just a few workers desk clocks others are employed as cleaners. Lets put it like this another woman showed up on my floor and i said is that really necessary. Im the only woman on the floor i thought oh my god thats what it would be strange. We wont allow it. That visually i wouldnt like it im the mother to these boys and thats all there is to it other women just dont belong here. But that doesnt mean women couldnt do the job. Why not theyre sure to be one or 2 out there. Do you know the mission of course theyd have to meet the criteria. I think that they might struggle with some of the physical demands. Do women really want to live among men i dont think so. Because. I worked this up i personally wouldnt have a problem with having women as colleagues and so they havent even tried to join since i. Have the foresight to have a wife of. Mine being around the guys a lot. But what if the come a rather a among the team members turns into an exaggerated plea to call. There have been some alarming incidents in special units of both the German Forces and the police. Thats what i know because i dont think that the presence of team spirit or an elite attitude is the main problem at least not in the units that i know for the units that we supervise. D. V. D. A but these men have to trust each other and that often means that they try to sort things out among themselves who does one sometimes i can go too far and we respond too late and as much as we have to prevent that forward. For example the German Armed Forces elite units special forces command ok s. K. Failed to report several incidents of right wing extremism in its ranks. But the bundeswehr as elite units are not the only ones that have got into trouble. A raid on members of a right wing group in the northeastern german state of mecklenburg for commanding 2017 revealed that officers from an elite police unit had allegedly hoarded weapons and boxes of ammunition. The German Government is also concerned about possible right wing extremist tendencies in special ops units. Does this move to lucian design or was of would you prefer go on of course allegations of such tendencies and the very government institutions that are supposed to protect the public are a definite cause for concern and disease should since. If i were to see an extreme case for example someone wearing a swastika on his uniform something so clear id be very worried no question but were just a crosssection of society i assume that there are some supporters in g s g 9 as me but i cant confirm that. The kind its allies you know serious trends in that direction weve all sworn an oath to protect germanys liberal democratic system and we do that. Meanwhile the terrorist has ordered the materials for his biological bomb quite legally on the internet. Where come on have you cant intervene because the actions at that stage im not in themselves against the law on the site not to english either this case is fairly recent and it shows that today such attacks are to be expected. It is often difficult for investigators to track down such perpetrators. If they do speed is of the essence. This situation has completely changed the way that she has to 9 carries out its counterterrorism operations. Yangs. Were now aware of the possibility of a number of different terrorist attacks and areas. But our claw for example the butter clarke attack in paris and 3015. Response time was a decisive factor there. It could take too long for us to fly or drive from Santa Augustine in response to an incident in northern germany. Far in order to flee. Thats why i g s g 9 is establishing a new base in berlin and is expanding the number of personnel about one 3rd. Right now commander fox is on a reconnaissance flight. After another. We found. Optimal landing site. Or several others. Seeing big cities have become targets but there have been attacks in berlin paris oslo russels thats why we need g s g 9 here. In berlin. Our aim was to expand our presence and berlin just started out at the expense of our base inside augustines. We can only do that by bringing in new people. Otherwise id have to transfer personnel from our headquarters everywhere. The decision has been made to move part of the g. S. T. 9 to berlin but its taking time one reason is that its hard to find sites where the rigorous Training Program can be carried out so for the time being the men are being temporarily housed in the city and spend only a few weeks here. I assume well have our personnel permanently stationed in berlin by the end of 2020. Be reinforced by an exchange with people from salt augustine and well keep doing that. The story of him. Here commander folks is that the bundestag to meet the german parliaments Police Commander theyre going to have a look at the Facilities Security layout. Of this group to move this is the largest buddhist talk Office Building 800 offices. Fox is particularly interested in the Service Entrance in the buildings and. Its a star in this process we review the situation building by building although we cant analyze every possible detail. And the situation changes all the time. The main points for us are the location of the buildings was in deployment options for our units and the buildings and Access Points we leave the rest to the specialists who work there every day to talk to. Its would. Love to have a look over there