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Tampa terrorism case raises questions of surveillance, searches, mental illness Muhammed Al-Azhari is accused of plotting a mass shooting in the name of ISIS. His lawyers have challenged the FBI’s investigative tactics.

December 27, 2021 Dan Sullivan

(Tampa Bay Times) A year ago, federal prosecutors accused a Tampa man of plotting a mass shooting in support of the ISIS terrorist group. FBI agents in a criminal complaint described Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari’s collection of a bulletproof vest, an Uzi submachine […]

Suspect to spend 4 years in prison for firing 29 bullets at Saudi embassy in The Hague

December 24, 2021 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The suspect arrested on suspicion of firing gunshots at the Saudi Arabian embassy in The Hague was convicted on Friday. Mohamed A., 41, was sentenced to four years in prison, six years less than what prosecutors wanted. The prison term […]

Colorado supermarket shooting suspect incompetent for trial

December 3, 2021 Colleen Slevin

(AP) A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at the state mental hospital to see if he can […]

Treat terrorism like other crime regarding mental health, says watchdog (LINK ONLY)

November 19, 2021 EoI News

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Germany: Islamic extremist motive possible in train attack

November 16, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) German prosecutors say they are no longer ruling out an Islamic extremist motive in a knife attack on a train earlier this month that left four people wounded. Prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday that Islamic State group propaganda videos had been […]

Germany: Police rule out terrorism in Bavaria train attack The man who stabbed four people on a German train on Saturday is believed to have been suffering from delusions that people were 'following him.' Police have not found any link to terrorist motivation for the attack.

November 7, 2021 Alex Berry

(Deutsche Welle) The man who stabbed four people on a train in the southern state of Bavaria on Saturday did so “indiscriminately,” police said during a press conference Sunday presenting the first results of their investigation into the attack. Prosecutor Gerhard Neuhof said […]

Germany: Several injured in knife attack on train The attack took place on an Intercity Express (ICE) train between the southern German cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg. Police have reported several injuries.

November 6, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Deutsche Welle) German Federal Police on Saturday said there was a knife attack on a train in the southern German state of Bavaria, resulting in several injuries. The train was traveling near Neumarkt between the cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg at the […]

Father describes the tragic fate of the 131st victim of the November 2015 massacres

October 27, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) One hundred and thirty people were killed on the night of 13 November 2015, or died shortly afterwards from their injuries. But there was one other victim, who escaped physically unhurt, only to take his own life two years after […]

Paris attacks trial hears devastating testimony of long-term impact of attack

October 21, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) The psychological damage does not affect only those who were witnesses or victims of the terrorist attacks on the night of 13 November 2015. Practically all the civil witness testimonies point to the impact of the victims’ damaged lives on […]

Bataclan survivor’s testimony highlights importance of post-PTSD care

October 17, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) The second week of witness evidence from those who survived the attack on the Bataclan music venue has been full of grief, guilt and the seemingly endless struggle to turn the page emotionally. One young woman told two anecdotes, one […]

Mental illness may have triggered Norway bow-and-arrow attack

October 15, 2021 Viken Kantarci and Pierre-Henry Deshayes

(AFP) A bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead this week appears to have been motivated by mental illness, authorities indicated Friday, as the perpetrator was ordered to be kept in a medical facility. Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish […]

Reading terror attacker attempts to appeal whole-life prison sentence (LINK ONLY)

October 4, 2021 EoI News

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ISIS supporter who attacked at Canadian Tire store denied parole

September 29, 2021 Stewart Bell

(Global News) A Toronto woman who carried [out an] ISIS-inspired attack at a Canadian Tire store in 2017 has been denied parole and ordered to serve out the remainder of her sentence in prison. A decision released Wednesday by the Parole Board […]

Suspect in German knife attack sent to psychiatric hospital

July 20, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) The suspect in a fatal knife attack in the German city of Wuerzburg last month has been sent to a psychiatric hospital after experts determined that it may not be possible to hold him criminally responsible for his actions, investigators said […]

Suspected Tunisian terrorist on the run from French psychiatric centre caught in Italy Man is being investigated for condoning terrorism and aggravated threats

July 16, 2021 Nicky Harley

(National-UAE) Police in Italy have arrested a suspected terrorist who has been on the run since escaping from a psychiatric facility in France. He has been under investigation in France for allegedly condoning the actions of ISIS fanatic Mohamed Merah, who killed […]

German probe weighs possible extremist motive in stabbing

June 29, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) German investigators said Tuesday that an Islamic extremist motivation for last week’s fatal knife attack in Wuerzburg appears likely, but they haven’t so far found any propaganda or other extremist material. They also plan more checks on the suspect’s mental health. […]

Somali kills three in ‘brutal’ Germany knife attack

June 25, 2021 Hui Min Neo

(AFP) A Somali man killed three people and left five others seriously injured in an “incredibly brutal” knife rampage in the southern German city of Wuerzburg. The 24-year-old suspect staged the attack in the city centre at around 5 pm (1500 GMT), […]

Mentally ill Canadian convicted in terror probe lands in U.S. supermaximum security prison Calls grow louder for transfer of Abdulraham El Bahnasawy to a Canadian prison

June 10, 2021 John Lancaster

(CBC) A Canadian family and U.S. experts alike say a mentally ill man from Mississauga, Ont., who was convicted for his role in an online terror plot while a teenager shouldn’t be in a supermaximum security prison in Colorado. Instead, they say he should […]

Vetlanda stabbing suspect to face trial in Sweden

May 14, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Local) A 22-year-old man who is accused of stabbing seven people in the southern Swedish town of Vetlanda is set to face trial. The man was arrested shortly after the attacks, which took place on five different locations close to Vetlanda’s railway […]

Alleged Australian Islamic State fighter faces court

May 9, 2021 Nigel Gladstone

(Sydney Morning Herald) An Australian man accused of supporting and recruiting fighters for Islamic State in Syria has faced court in Melbourne after being deported from Turkey where he had been jailed for links to the terrorist group. Mohamed Zuhbi, 30, had […]

Muslim convert tasered at flat in Cornwall after threatening to shoot Jewish group Adam Burgoyne has a long history of committing crimes in Cornwall

April 19, 2021 Chris Matthews

(Cornwall Live) A Muslim convert threatened to carry out an atrocity against Jewish people before being tasered by armed police at his home in Cornwall. Adam Mark Burgoyne, 31, contacted another Muslim man in [an] attempt to get him to help him […]

Amsterdam man cleared of planning terror attack on Gay Pride

April 16, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) A 32-year-old man from Amsterdam has been sentenced to five months in jail to be followed by compulsory psychiatric treatment for making threats against gay people, Jews and the police on social media but was found not guilty of planning […]

Truck attack plot suspect diagnosed with delusional disorder

February 25, 2021 Michael Kunzelman

(AP) A Maryland man charged with planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., was diagnosed with delusional disorder and refused to take psychotropic medication while in federal custody last year, a judge said in a […]

Authorities had four warnings about Reading attacker’s mental health (LINK ONLY)

January 11, 2021 EoI News

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Reading attacker Khairi Saadallah given whole-life prison sentence (LINK ONLY)

January 11, 2021 EoI News

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Former Pitt student accused of threatening FBI agents will remain in custody, judge rules

January 8, 2021 Paula Reed Ward

(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) A former University of Pittsburgh student who has a “fascination with terrorism” will remain incarcerated pending trial on charges that he threatened an FBI agent. U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Lanzillo ruled that Khaled Miah, 27, poses a potential threat to […]

Reading knife attacker had ‘fleeting interest’ in extremism, court told (LINK ONLY)

January 6, 2021 EoI News

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Assailant in Swiss knife attack was jihadist: police

November 25, 2020 Michael Shields

(Reuters) A Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday was a known jihadist who fell in love with a militant online and tried in vain to meet […]

Reading park attack: Khairi Saadallah pleads guilty to three murders (LINK ONLY)

November 11, 2020 EoI News

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Dutch HR firm says Palestinian man who vandalized kosher eatery had terrorist motives

October 29, 2020 Cnaan Liphshiz

(JTA) A Dutch human resources firm has determined that a Palestinian man who twice vandalized a kosher restaurant and tried to set it ablaze had terrorist motives. The NTA firm on Wednesday determined that Saleh Ali, an asylum seeker from Syria, indeed […]

Judge: Hamden man charged with trying to support ISIS mentally unfit for trial

October 14, 2020 Ben Lambert

(New Haven Register) A Hamden man charged with attempting to provide material support for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham was found mentally incapable of participating in his own defense Wednesday, delaying adjudication of his case. Kevin Iman McCormick, 27, was […]

Muslim woman trashes liquor section of French supermarket for a second time

October 11, 2020 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) A Muslim woman in the French city of Reims ransacked the liquor area of a supermarket for the second time in under a month, causing even more property damage than the first incident. The first attack took place on September 16th […]

Iraqi sentenced to 70 months for Islamic State activities

October 8, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) An Iraqi citizen who has been living in Switzerland on and off for 22 years has been found guilty of setting up a network of terror sympathisers and inciting his wife to commit a suicide attack in Lebanon. The Federal […]

Murder suspect acted ‘out of vengeance against the Swiss state’

September 17, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) A man suspected of fatally stabbing a random man in western Switzerland on Saturday has confessed, saying that he acted in the name of jihadism, according to Swiss public radio, RTS. He had been released from prison in July, having […]

Suspect in Berlin highway attack moved to psychiatric jail

August 19, 2020 Kirsten Grieshaber

(AP) German authorities on Wednesday ordered a 30-year-old man accused of deliberately driving his car into other vehicles along a major Berlin highway and injuring six people moved to a psychiatric jail, as investigators continue to probe the man’s motives. Officials said […]

Le Havre hostage-taker consumed by plight of Palestinians, say police

August 7, 2020 Tangi Salaun

(Reuters) The armed man who seized six hostages in a French bank on Thursday spoke to negotiators of hardships facing Palestinians and called himself a mujahid but made no reference to Islamist groups, a police source involved in the operation said. The […]

Hostage taker surrenders outside French bank, all six captives unharmed

August 6, 2020 Antony Paone

(Reuters) A gunman who took six people hostage in a bank in northern France on Thursday surrendered to elite police after a six-hour operation to free his captives. The hostage-taker, a 34-year-old with a history of mental illness, emerged slowly from the […]

NCR military stabber OK for passes but not to live in community

July 14, 2020 Michele Mandel

(Toronto Sun) Despite being cleared last year for two-day passes into Toronto, the pandemic has delayed those privileges for a mentally ill man who stabbed three soldiers at a North York recruitment office. Instead, Ayanle Hassan Ali, 32, was only able [to] […]

Judge extends hospitalization of truck attack plot suspect

July 4, 2020 Michael Kunzelman

(AP) A federal judge has extended the court-ordered hospitalization of a Maryland man deemed mentally unfit for trial on charges he planned an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said in […]

Police name man shot dead by officers after Glasgow knife attack (LINK ONLY)

June 27, 2020 EoI News

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Reading attack: Suspect ruled out as possible terrorist twice in two years (LINK ONLY)

June 23, 2020 EoI News

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Reading terror suspect was classified as ‘high mental health risk’ amid fears he was not getting help he needed (LINK ONLY)

June 23, 2020 EoI News

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Reading stabbings: Suspect’s mother says he should have been admitted to mental health unit (LINK ONLY)

June 22, 2020 EoI News

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Judge: Man accused of truck attack plot isn’t fit for trial

March 4, 2020 Michael Kunzelman

(AP) A federal judge has ruled there is ample evidence that a man accused of planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State group at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., isn’t mentally competent to stand trial. U.S. District Judge […]

Man accused of terror plot may be mentally unfit for trial

January 21, 2020 Michael Kunzelman

(AP) A psychologist who examined a man accused of planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State group at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., found “ample evidence” that he is mentally unfit to assist in his defense, a court […]

National security review agency looking at complaint over arrest of Canadian ISIS recruit

January 6, 2020 Stewart Bell

(Global News) A complaint over the RCMP’s role in the arrest in the United States of a Toronto-area ISIS recruit has been referred to Canada’s new national security review agency, handing its members a challenging case early in their mandate. A copy […]

German police doubt terror link in knife attack

January 6, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) German police on Monday said they had found no indication yet that a knife-wielding Turkish man shot dead after trying to attack officers had a terrorist motive, adding that he had psychological problems. The 37-year-old struck a parked patrol car with […]

French police shoot knife man in Metz 2 days after Paris attack

January 5, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French police shot and injured a knife-wielding man in the northeastern city of Metz on Sunday, two days after a suspected Islamist radical stabbed a man to death near Paris, investigators said. Metz public prosecutor Christian Mercuri told AFP the man […]

Hundreds rally in Paris to seek justice for murdered Jewish woman Sarah Halimi

January 5, 2020 Philippe Theise

(France 24) Hundreds of French Jews and their supporters rallied in Paris on Sunday calling for justice for murdered Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, after a court of appeal ruled last month that her attacker was “not criminally responsible” for his actions. Ms […]

French prosecutors treating deadly stabbing outside Paris as terror attack

January 4, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French anti-terrorist investigators said Saturday they have taken over the probe into an attack by a knife-wielding man who killed one person walking with his wife in a park south of Paris before being shot dead by police. Police said the […]