German Intelligence Prevents Terrorist Attack at Music Festival

The intelligence services learned in time about the arrival of the terrorist attack groups from the informant

The Federal Intelligence Service of Germany thwarted plans to organize a major terrorist act at a music festival in the north of the country, reports NDR radio station on October 17.
The so-called “Islamic State” (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) sent three groups of executors to Germany in 2016 to prepare for and conduct the attack, but the federal prosecutor’s office of Germany soon found out about their plans. According to the prosecutor Peter Frank, the facts were concrete, the case was initiated in October 2016.
Plans for the preparation of the attack became known thanks to the German-born married couple Oguzu G. and Marcia M., who went to Syria to join the terrorists. The couple was involved in planning an attack. His wife recruited women into the ranks of terrorists and inadvertently contacted a female informant for the German intelligence services. So intelligence became known plans for the attack.
It is known that a high-ranking member of the IG (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) was named after the pseudonym Abu Musab al-Almani who was responsible for preparing the attack. Perhaps this is a Swiss citizen who has already died during the fighting in Syria. Intelligence agencies are looking for other participants in the planned terrorist attack. Oguz G. is currently being held in a Kurdish prisoner of war camp in northern Syria.
As REGNUM news agency reported, a native of Syria who was detained on October 15 in Cologne, who had taken a hostage, was planning an act with a large number of victims. Police believe he intended to set up a major fire at McDobald’s, but he failed.