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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Counterterrorism

How Germany Has Resisted the Influence of ISIS


Dirk Sauerborn, left, stands next to North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Ralf Jäger during a news conference on the intervention project Wegweiser, or Signpost, in Dusseldorf, Germany, March 24, 2014.

Programs to integrate Muslim communities may have helped Germany so far avoid the Islamist violence in neighboring France and Belgium

During his lunch break one day at the end of March, Dirk Sauerborn, a senior police officer in the German city of Düsseldorf, agreed to appear on a children’s television program called Nine ½, which was devoted that week to the subject of terrorism. In their tagline for the episode, the show’s producers posed a question about the bombings that had struck a week earlier in Brussels, leaving more than 30 people dead. They asked: “Who would do such a thing?” It fell to Sauerborn to provide an answer that German kids could understand.

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