Munich Terror Attack 22 July

[CharlesHarris]

Looks like they are starting to get more serious in Germany:

http://www.dw.com/en/after-munich-politi...a-19424326

In remarks published in the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper Sunday, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann advocated for the army to be allowed to deploy within Germany to support the police in case of a terror attack. Germany's constitution, drawn up in the aftermath of World War II, places strict limits on the use of the military, the Bundeswehr, within the country's borders. Those regulations were now obsolete, Herrmann said.

"We have an absolutely stable democracy in our country," he said. "It would be completely incomprehensible… if we had a terrorist situation like Brussels in Frankfurt, Stuttgart or Munich and we were not permitted to call in the well-trained forces of the Bundeswehr, even though they stand ready." In most European countries that was the case without question, he said... Politicians are also looking into whether controls on weapons, which are already strict in Germany, need to be further strengthened.

Germany deliberates anti-terror response

Following multiple terror strikes across Germany, Bavarian authorities plan to boost the police force and use the army to help secure borders. Soldiers, however, warn that the Bundeswehr is no "auxiliary police..."

...vice chair of Germany's army union, Andreas Steinmetz, said that using the Bundeswehr within Germany's borders should remain an exception... he told the German newspaper Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. "The army is no auxiliary police."

The Bundeswehr would act only in a major emergency that could not be managed any other way, he said...

The state premier of Germany's most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft, said that the authorities would change their security policies after the terror strikes. At the same time, she rejected the idea of using the army to do provide security within Germany's borders.

"I don't know how the Bundeswehr could help in the cases such as Munich or Ansbach," Kraft told the Neue Westfälische paper. She also spoke out against putting all refugees or all Muslims under blanket suspicion...