However, other members of the German intelligence service also charged with watching chat rooms noticed a user who claimed that he was working for the domestic spy service and offering vital information. In September, Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the domestic spy agency, estimated that there are at least 9,200 in Germany, up from 5,500 three years ago. The ranks of Salafists – an ultraconservative sect of Islam – have been rapidly growing. In April 2016, the man began working for the BfV, charged with monitoring potentially violent Islamists in Germany. “With all the information coming out about this individual, the question has to be raised: how he was able to end up in the intelligence service and was able to hide all this from his workplace but also his family,” said the senior law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the case. and stalking serve victims who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI). Article content Martin Meissner / Associated Press assistance by the Rural Program: July 2011-June 2013. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Those who have interviewed the suspect say he may have been mentally ill, and perhaps even had multiple personalities, according to the senior intelligence official.īut in hindsight, even officials in German security circles were asking how such a lapse was possible. They said they had interviewed former employers and others who knew him. Before he was hired in April, officials insist, he was thoroughly vetted. A Consent Decree is only as good as the people implementing it. Officials were withholding the name of the 51-year old, as well as the alias he used as a porn actor and in chat rooms. in 2016, found that BPD was engaged in a patternor-practice of constitutional violations.
One has to say that we were able to find out about all this very quickly and also actions were taken fast.” It’s not only a rather bizarre, but also a quite scary, story that an agency, whose central role it is to engage in counterespionage, hired an Islamist “How should anyone have known this? He had acted under different names and identities online,” he said.