Germany's Islamist scene growing: security chief
[AFP]
AFPJanuary 8, 2017
German officials inspect the truck that Anis Amri drove through a packed Berlin Christmas market on December 19, 2016
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Berlin (AFP) - Germany's domestic security chief warned Sunday that the country's radical Islamist scene is not only growing, but becoming more decentralised, posing greater challenges to surveillance operations.
In an interview with national news agency DPA, Hans-Georg Maassen also defended security officials under fire after it emerged that Berlin truck attack suspect Anis Amri had slipped through their net, saying they had done everything they could.
Overall, the number of Salafists -- or fundamentalist Sunni Muslims -- in Germany has risen to more than 9,700, sharply up from 3,800 people in 2011, said Maassen.
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