The number of radical Islamists in Berlin has nearly doubled in five years, with many of them categorised as “potentially violent” including at least 50 who have traveled to and from the territories occupied by the Islamic State (ISIS) to fight for the group, according to a top German official.
From 350 identified five years ago, the number is now pegged at 680 hardcore Islamists, with nearly half of them “geared toward violence,” said Isabelle Kalbitzer, spokesman for the Berlin office of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s equivalent of the FBI.
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