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Danger of assault
Expert: Deal with the specter of terrorism as rationally as attainable

Terrorism researcher Peter Neumann advises coping with the hazard of assaults in Germany as rationally as attainable. “You must not allow yourself to be terrorized, otherwise the terrorists will win,” he stated on ARD's “Tagesthemen”. The goal of terrorism is to terrorize societies and other people.

The danger of dying in a terrorist assault remains to be very low. “That means there are many threats in everyday life that are far more dangerous,” stated Neumann, who teaches at King's College London. “Of course this horror and terror is something very bad, but you have to try to deal with it rationally.”

On Thursday, an 18-year-old Austrian shot on the Israeli Consulate General in Munich earlier than being killed by police. Investigators are following up on proof of an Islamist or anti-Semitic motive. In the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, a suspected Islamist attacked a police station. The man, armed with a machete and a knife, was locked in a safety gate and overpowered by particular forces. In a suspected Islamist terrorist assault in Solingen on August 23, a person killed three individuals with a knife and injured eight others at a city competition. The suspected perpetrator is in custody.

Neumann stated that the overwhelming majority of assaults are prevented. “Even with these individual perpetrators, who often radicalize themselves, it is not the case that they become terrorists overnight,” he stated. They are sometimes preceded by weeks or months of radicalization, throughout which it’s attainable to intercept “signals.” “We need to get better at intercepting these signals, sensitizing the environment and concentrating on the risk groups where the terrorists actually come from.” Although assaults can’t be fully prevented, the speed of assaults prevented will be elevated.

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