A German soldier who pretended to be a Syrian refugee and was allegedly planning a gun attack has been arrested in southern Germany.
Prosecutors in Frankfurt said the 28-year-old suspect was motivated by a "xenophobic background".
A student, 22, said to be a co-conspirator, has also been arrested.
He may have planned to kill Moslem migrants or perhaps pose as a Moslem migrant killer. Or something else, I suppose.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that the man registered as a refugee in December 2015:
No concerns were raised at the time, despite the man speaking no Arabic. German media report that he even received monthly payments and accommodation.
If the German--those of the "papers, please" Teutonic grim efficiency--screening process for refugees/migrants couldn't ferret out an actual German, how are we to expect that jihadis were screened and identified?
One shudders to think about the Italian screening process.
But hey, it's not like entering one European Union country allows you to move anywhere within the EU, right? So how bad can the problem be?
This will work out swell.
