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The European security landscape is increasingly unstable, with recent thwarted terror plots highlighting the ongoing threat posed by Islamic extremists. Germany, in particular, has successfully suppressed a plot linked to ISIS that aimed to attack a Christmas Market in Bavaria—a festive tradition with high civilian crowds.
German authorities acted swiftly after receiving intelligence from a foreign agency. They raided a shared accommodation for asylum seekers in Augsburg and detained a 37-year-old Iraqi national who had been communicating online with ISIS operatives. The suspect had posted images glorifying jihadist violence and was in the process of planning an attack using a vehicle to ram into the crowded Christmas Market—a method reminiscent of previous ISIS-inspired attacks in Europe.