The German news media Berliner Zeitung is reporting on the case of an ISIS terrorist plot to attack the Israeli Embassy in Berlin. The reports state that the ISIS plot was a plan to attack the Israeli embassy or another Israeli institution between December 2014 and July 2015. A criminal case began on December 15, 2015 in the Berlin District Court against two 21-year-old men ISIS terrorist plotters, Mohamed El-N. and Ali El-I., who are charged with “preparing a serious subversive violence.”

One of the ISIS terrorist plotters, Mohamed El-N., is a German citizen.  Both men were born in Berlin.  Mohamed El-N. had been working as a baker.  He also told his friends that he sought to support suicide bombings and attacks on public schools, including taking hostages from schools. Reportedly, a witness on Friday, December 18, will report that he claims to have saw a bomb. While the police found guns and other weapons on the men, the authorities reported in court that traces of chemicals used to make bombs.

Berliner Zeitung reports (translated into English) that the terrorist plot was inspired initially by the ISIS attack on a Tunisia hotel in June 2015, as previously reported by R.E.A.L. and others.

According to the Berliner Zeitung (translated): “Ali El-I. had adopted a radical Islamist sentiment, he endorsed the violence of the ‘Islamic State’ (IS) and was so fascinated by the touch of a single perpetrator to a Tunisian tourist hotel in June that he saw himself as a future perpetrator, says the prosecutor. Ali El-I. was determined to use the explosives for an attack on the Israeli embassy or any other institution in the country, where he had gone out of casualties.”

“On his cell phone the police found propaganda IS. A witness, who heard both brag about their projects, went to the police. He claims he saw the bomb. This statement is based the indictment. In July and Mohamed Ali were arrested. They lived in a home for young homeless people in Gesundbrunnen.”

“An explosive device, police found in them not, but firearms, prohibited knife, a baseball bat – and Schreckschuss ammunition. There is evidence that they were handling explosives. A chemist of LKA says in court that in the clothes of the two traces of potassium perchlorate and aluminum adhered to so admit it only in pyrotechnics. Also on the tape was seized potassium perchlorate. The defendants assert, built no bomb, but to have handled only with condensed milk and some cartridges.”

“Both were born in Berlin. Mohamed is a German citizen, Ali’s nationality is unknown; he comes from a Palestinian family. While Mohamed worked in a bakery, Ali spent the time with smoking pot and playing on the Playstation. They knew each other only two months, and all about good friends, they are not comfortable. ‘I noticed he had radical ideas, wanted to convince me IS’, Mohamed says Ali. He had said that suicide bombers after her death have a smile on his face. ‘He also tells of hostage-taking in schools and that he wanted to shoot hostages in the head. But I could not take that seriously. I guess he just needs the attention of others. ‘”

During the court trial, Ali El-I.’s lawyer stated that Ali El-I.’s “involvement with the IS is characterized by a “certain ambivalence,’ and that Ali El-I. was not serious about really supporting ISIS. In court, “Ali admitted that he built an explosive device. But having taken the accusation that planned an attack against Israeli institutions and fatalities, he rejected this. The blast was supposed to go up in the forest.”

The original news report in German is provided at this link.

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