Nancy Faeser (SPD), Federal Minister of the Interior, speaks at an event at the Ministry of the Interior (archive photo).
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The terrorist group “Islamic State Khorasan Province” has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Russia. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser explains that the group also poses “the greatest Islamist threat” in Germany.
NAfter the attack on a concert hall near Moscow that left more than 130 dead, the federal government sees Islamists as the perpetrators. “Based on everything that is known so far, it can be assumed that the terrorist group Islamic State of Khorasan Province is responsible for the murderous terrorist attack near Moscow,” Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” on Saturday.
“The ISPK is currently the biggest Islamist threat in Germany,” warned the Interior Minister, using the abbreviation for the group. Khorasan is the historical name for a region in Central Asia that includes, among other things, parts of today’s states of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
“The danger from Islamist terrorism remains acute,” said Faeser. Faeser also said that the greatly increased protective measures taken by the security authorities in Cologne around Christmas and New Year’s Eve were aimed at protecting against possible threats of attacks by the ISPK. “The Islamist scene is the focus of the BKA, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the state security authorities.”
Faeser clearly condemned the attack near Moscow. “We mourn with the families of the many innocent victims of this cowardly and brutal terrorist attack,” she told the “SZ”. According to Russian investigators, at least 133 people were killed in the attack by armed attackers on a concert hall in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk on Friday evening.
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