Germany could see a terrorist attack on the scale of the assault on a Moscow concert hall in March, German officials have warned, as the Euro 2024 football championship it is hosting neared its second week.
“Europe, and with it Germany, are in the crosshairs of jihadist organisations, in particular Isis and Isis-K,” said German interior minister Nancy Faeser in reference to the Afghan-based affiliate called Isis-Khorasan, which claimed responsibility for the March massacre at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall.
“A possible scenario is a large-scale, co-ordinated attack of the kind we recently saw in Moscow,” said Thomas Haldenwang, head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV), adding that Isis-K was “certainly the most dangerous group”.