Germany is not immune from attacks of the kind seen in France, where lone-wolf extremist Mohamed Merah was shot dead by police after allegedly killing seven people, a domestic intelligence chief warned Friday. "It's a danger we've been warning about for years," said Hans-Werner Wargel, head of the Lower Saxony state Office for the Protection of the Constitution. His agency monitors subversives, including potentially violent Islamists.
In an interview in Hanover, Wargel said news reports indicated Merah, who grew up in France and had appeared to be well integrated, had become radical without joining any terrorist network.