have taken to 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. we don t want terrorism in germany we don t want calls for terrorism to be made here for people to be 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 the w. investigative reporters working on the story found a thriving network. and one of those investigative reporters is esther felton who
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. so if the fed and as we heard there an estimated about eleven thousand sun office in germany based on your research how much of a threat to the radicals on a fifth post of the country well actually we are talking about different generations of self in the beginning the self is sort of just doing missionary work mainly then the scene became more and more violent with lots of people actually leaving germany going to the commons owns in the area in syria and iraq now we re dealing with returning these and dropouts so it s very hard to distinguish between people who have actually left the scene and some are still buried in the ideology
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