(European Conservative) German authorities have again classified an Islamist preacher as a security threat, years after he was jailed for supporting terrorism and later claimed to have reformed.
Sven Lau, 44, was once one of the most visible figures of Germany’s radical Salafist scene. A convert from Mönchengladbach, he first drew national attention in the 2010s by leading the so-called “Sharia Police” in the city of Wuppertal, where men in orange vests urged Muslims to avoid alcohol, gambling, and other “un-Islamic” practices.
In 2017, Lau was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for recruiting two men in Germany for the Syrian terrorist group Jamwa, which later merged with the Islamic State.
