Islamist Mole Discovered in, Get This, German Intelligence

Via the French site Le Parisien.

Pardon the very convoluted sentences here. I didn't feel like unparsing this gibberish. The French sentence structure is pretty much like the English one, except in newspaper writing, which seems to have its own dumb style.

Also, this might just be a french translation of a German article in which they retained the convoluted German sentence structure.

You'll get the gist. Some of these sentences are so sliced-and-diced into clauses all rushing to interrupt each other it would just be a real pain in the ass to put the parts into sensible order.

After the arrest last week, according to FAZ [Frankfurt Allgemein Zeitung], a 51-year-old agent in the German Office for Protection of the Constitution (Bndesamt Fur Verfassungsschutz, BfV), the internal security service, suspected of having infiltrated this organization for planning an Islamist attack, the Interior Minister sought to be reassuring this Wednesday. But many questions remain.

The arrest was revealed Tuesday by the daily site Der Spiegel and the daily paper Die Welt. "This is an isolated case," insisted the spokesman of the Interior Minister, asked about the existence of any precedents or a similar case in the heart of the intelligence services.

According to a spokesman of BfV, investigators cautioned this agent recruited in April 2016, father of four children born in Spain but naturalized as a German, who had appeared in gay pornographic films (!!!), of having "made Islamist propaganda statements on the internet" and of having been a bit too loose about his activities on behalf of BfV during his chats.

But he is further suspected of having sought via the internet would-be accomplices for committing an act of violence targeting the very heart of the interior [Security?] services in Cologne, the largest city of North Rheine Westphalia. In the "name of Allah" and for "helping his brothers."

Alas for him, during these [chats], his chatbuddy was none other than an informant for interior security. The investigation lasted several weeks before his arrest. The head of the BfV [said on Wednesday to another newspaper] the attack was no further than in the planning stage without specific elements plotted.

The prosecutor of Dusseldorf was asked about the circumstances of the recruitment of this man. The BfV had to nevertheless admit that the agent must have succeeded in hiding his conversion to Islam which occurred in 2014.

posted by Ace at 02:07 PM

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