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is preparing an attack there was terrorists don't just aim to kill a lot of people do but also to attract a big audience. the threat to germany has changed in recent years. tell what is toy to the day terrorism is all about small operations with little logistical effort. of course islam is terrorism remains the dangers but there is also the growing threat of rightwing to terrorism. they intervene when no one else can help g.s.t. 9 gemini's police unit. i would like people to be less afraid because they

know that we're here if you say you know. right now. does g.s.t. not make germany safe we all follow these men on their daily routine you know kind of mushy they're not machines they have feelings. so i have written that said well there are some my family. no t.v. crew has ever got so close to g s g 9. near bonn the former german capital. lots of carports and freshly trimmed front gardens. this is also the headquarters of a special unit of germany's federal police the border protection group g s g

9. more than the all of them i was hired here at the base i've seen the chance change 9 guys through the fence and wondered what kind of people i work with. see them in movies videos and documentaries. but then you see them at lunch or driving to shooting practice and you think that's cool. meanwhile the commander arrives at the side gate. for me this is how the day usually starts and it's a pleasant retain a minimal otaku on. it gives you a chance to gather your thoughts and think about what you can expect over the next few hours and then talk. to but lots of people start their day at work like this.

the fall of the 3rd squad of g.s.t. 9 for an entire summer and got to know them well. most of their work is top secret it's the nature of their mission and that's why d.s.d. 9 insisted on prior approval of all the videos shown in this report. of women will take the case. don't stop filming please. accept for the commander we cannot reveal the identities of any other g.s.t. 9 member. to. getting a real insight into what we do here. the way beyond how we live. but i think that everyone will understand why we can't show our faces from time to. roll call for the 3rd squad. point.

we can't reveal exactly how many men are in this unit. g s g 9 takes on about 30 missions a year during downtime they train. today they'll be using a practice every nation. a little over 3 102234 the tango. plus 30223 f. x. x. and 309 millimeter f.x. almost a 1000 rounds enough to eliminate a large number of terrorists months someone to. think has just an alias the men of genius 290 have nicknames. you know. people get a nickname during training. might be linked to something that's happened to them or to their real name. and they'll keep that nickname the entire time that.

the g.'s to 9 members have aliases like granny all neat and well then the squad leader is called mopsy. commanders are home folks is also taking part in the exercise he's been the head of genius tonight for 5 years he spends most of his time in meetings but today he's right in the thick of things. we have a heavily armed perpetrator in a building that can only be reached from the air. they've got the entrances are barricaded and possibly booby trapped. so we'll have to get in through the roof with. the choppers to make our approach. meanwhile somewhere in berlin. a terrorist is planning an attack.

he gets his instructions from the member of the so-called islamic state his plan an attack that involves the use of the powerful toxin rice and. the terrorist wants to use a homemade explosive to spread the rice and this is only an exercise but it has similarities with the real case we've seen far. in attack in which russell is you should have a devastating effect if i were not talking about the deaths of several people just pushing vengeful it would be much more seriously and that is with me from guns under once in all your movie scenes at langley was an operation we've long known from intelligence reports that terrorist groups are trying to carry out attacks with nuclear biological and chemical weapons i'm still can tell and we know from

the rice in case that it can be a fairly simple operation and for horses. anyone can legally order the ingredients with this kind of biological weapon on the internet raisen as extracted from plant seeds in 2018 a terrorist in cologne was preparing a rice an attack but police managed to prevent it. below the middle do you skip many of these substances including nitrogen and other fertilisers are used as part of a completely legal activity. this is so the authorities can't ban them outright our job is to find out whether these materials are going to be. used illegally. as. germany's interior ministry believes that coordinated simultaneous terrorist attacks such as took place in paris and 2015 or in brussels

a year later unlikely right now. it's hard. to know how for a long time we don't with terrorists who try to organize attacks that would kill as many people as possible. those attacks also involved elaborate planning. but then they switched to what we call low threshold operations which are less complex and target a smaller number of people. that was what happened in 2016 in central but then when the nice henri plowed a stolen truck into the christmas market there killing 12 people. although the so-called islamic state has been defeated militarily there are almost 300 islamists in germany alone and police believe that they could attack at any time you know let's. move. all that i ask and try to do now is to hurt us in our

own countries that includes small individual attacks and individual murders and all to. germany faces a number of threats not only the danger of islamist terrorism but also an increased risk of right wing attacks was. the magnitude of that danger was brought into focus by the october $29000.00 synagogue attack and the murder of. a few months. later problems of right wing extremism and terrorism have been ignored for a long time. ago doesn't really learned nothing from the end as you scan. just a minute. in fact i believe that we're seeing just the tip of the iceberg. we don't know yet how great the threat really is. is to destroy

9 squad leader mopsy and his men train every day to deal with these situations. in this drill gunmen have dug in at an industrial park and are shooting at innocent civilians it's just a training exercise but the tension is still real the squad doesn't know the terrain they're under extreme time pressure and they know that the assailants will stop at nothing you mean obviously if my men have no idea what they're getting into they face a lot of risks in similar situations when the. things are tense. in training missions we do things that you can't prepare for. you create conditions that put the squad under simulated pressure. there's a lot of psychological stress. these men can dive dropping by parachute or of hell from a helicopter in seconds while carrying 35 kilos of equipment on their backs. there

are about 400 men in g s g 9 their job is to deal effectively with terrorists hostage takers heavily armed criminals. we do a lot of training and shooting a few so we can avoid the latter if possible and real washington was our. g.s.t. 9 reports directly to the interior ministry and can be deployed at home and abroad its mission is to secure as much evidence as possible while keeping collateral damage to a minimum for most fish you can easily learn the skills necessary for this job for you've got to have a high level of social competence the psychological strength to deal with stress. and above all the ability to work very well. in team and on the net so our country i. don't want to be ramblers here we have to be cautious we can't just rush in and

blow everything up as from this is that no one's going to open fire unless they're in an immediate threat situation as a scorched operations. since it was founded in the early $970.00 s. geas to 9 has carried out almost 2000 missions they claim to have fired their weapons just 8 times. just to 9 functions like a well coached sports team they work out a rough strategy in advance but can adapt to situations they encounter in the field . to maximize the sense of trust in the squad they run drills like this one. it also helps them to subdue you the human instinct to flee when facing deponents you have to be aware of what's out there especially when you're being shot at. but if we weren't afraid we'd be the wrong people for the job. but to shoot in the end of course we feel fear but we train

a lot to counteract the training exercises help us to control that fear when things start happening can we go through or not if i think you communicated well we covered you it worked fine for us but how was it for you before going to know. mopsy is 421 of the oldest members in the unit he joined what was then the federal border police 24 years ago and then passed the entrance exam for g s g 9. he's been on 50 missions including operations in money to rock the phone number. for 3 or 4 months i think when i probably could have been a firefighter or another medic flipping me down or mentions who haven't i just enjoy helping people remind us often i can do that with these units at a very high level that's very satisfying or. it was a nice job really means a lot to me as a baby daughter doesn't feel. yet

a terrorist is scouting locations he wants to kill as many people as possible and he wants to attract attention to. those mr wilder terrorism as an act of violence its main aim is to use symbolic highly visible dramatic acts of violence to spread fear among the public. it's all done for effect it's a communicational strategy that sends a message to a target audience and super people. it's designed to affect how people use a public space or public transport go to work in. the terrorist wants to launch his rice an attack in berlin because of the city's symbolic importance as germany's capital. in the world who and parliament and cities like carolyn that are hometown. parliament and many other institutions places with lots going on are attractive to vault of twenty's or

guns institutes who want to hear but exactly that makes them a prime target for terrorists offer tourists not hochtief. terrilyn hasn't had a counterterrorism unit up to now and that's something we're having to change. in the car doors of g.s.t. and 9 squads 3 no one suspects that an attack is imminent you've been practicing in secret all this time. i was. every member of g s g 9 has its own bunk in the sand augustine barracks although most live with their families nearby only a few actually sleep here. it smells of homemade curry the men spend more time in the barracks than anywhere else.

how many barracks. in the ocean probably 5. to morrow zorro's going to the u.k. for 3 weeks training exercise. as part of through and also i'm packing for an assignment in britain to tell you. the truth. i'm going to take it easy. with the british army in more equal time in. hospitals what does that mean. he stands for explosive methods of entry. but if the course deals with all the different ways that you could open up a target location and get into it. like almost everyone in the squad and zorro are married and have children and your wife will look after the kids. yeah as usual. people

talk a lot about work life balance but all we do is work it's tough to find a balance. and these men usually share the most intense moments of their lives with their colleagues not with their families sometimes wives and children feel left out. michel is 1st minute you can't talk to them about a lot of the work you do hear from you have the right sometimes they wouldn't understand anyway. it's an entirely different world. i'd rather talk about it with a colleague they're sort of like a 2nd family because of course this can cause problems because your real family says that you're shutting them out. of the. g.s.t. 9 men craig sample can't really stay at home to look after

a sick child and the men enjoy their work so much that the commander sometimes has to order them to stop but the. i tell them to be careful not to mess up their family life. and if your wife's having a baby you stay home with her. in extreme cases i've had many call up and ask whether they should come into work. my job as a supervisor is easy i don't have to motivate my team the hard part is to slow them down and sometimes to protect them from themselves. this is my. she worked as a key. she has to be 9 for 13 years and retired a couple of years ago but she still stops by often to visit once a team member always

a team member. my question is some of these guys are young enough to be our son that's. the way i see it anyway are busy and that is i thought i'd have to tell them move those trying racks out of the courtyard we have to clean the floors now. with the you also develop a certain level of trust so. the guys would leave their stuff lying around. and if you've been working on the same floor for years like me. or you others. guys learn to trust you. there are no women engineers to 9 operational units just a few workers desk clocks others are employed as cleaners. let's put it like this another woman showed up on my floor and i said is that really necessary. i'm the only woman on the floor i thought oh my god

that's what it would be strange. we won't allow it. that visually i wouldn't like it i'm the mother to these boys and that's all there is to it other women just don't belong here. but that doesn't mean women couldn't do the job. why not they're sure to be one or 2 out there. do you know the mission of course they'd have to meet the criteria. i think that they might struggle with some of the physical demands. do women really want to live among men i don't think so. because. i worked this up i personally wouldn't have a problem with having women as colleagues and so they haven't even tried to join

since i. have the foresight to have a wife of. mine being around the guys a lot. but what if the come a rather a among the team members turns into an exaggerated plea to call. there have been some alarming incidents in special units of both the german forces and the police. that's what i know because i don't think that the presence of team spirit or an elite attitude is the main problem at least not in the units that i know for the units that we supervise. d.v.d.-a but these men have to trust each other and that often means that they try to sort things out among themselves who does one sometimes i can go too far and we respond too late and as much as we have to prevent that forward. for example the german armed forces elite units special forces command ok s.k.

failed to report several incidents of right wing extremism in its ranks. but the bundeswehr as elite units are not the only ones that have got into trouble. a raid on members of a right wing group in the northeastern german state of mecklenburg for commanding 2017 revealed that officers from an elite police unit had allegedly hoarded weapons and boxes of ammunition. the german government is also concerned about possible right wing extremist tendencies in special ops units. does this move to lucian design or was of would you prefer go on of course allegations of such tendencies and the very government institutions that are supposed to protect the public are a definite cause for concern and disease should since. if i were to see an extreme case for example someone wearing a swastika on his uniform something so clear i'd be very worried no question but

we're just a cross-section of society i assume that there are some supporters in g s g 9 as me but i can't confirm that. the kind it's allies you know serious trends in that direction we've all sworn an oath to protect germany's liberal democratic system and we do that. meanwhile the terrorist has ordered the materials for his biological bomb quite legally on the internet. where come on have you can't intervene because the actions at that stage i'm not in themselves against the law on the site not to english either this case is fairly recent and it shows that today such attacks are to be expected.

it is often difficult for investigators to track down such perpetrators. if they do speed is of the essence. this situation has completely changed the way that she has to 9 carries out its counterterrorism operations. yang's. we're now aware of the possibility of a number of different terrorist attacks and areas. but our claw for example the butter clarke attack in paris and 3015. response time was a decisive factor there. it could take too long for us to fly or drive from santa augustine in response to an incident in northern germany. far in order to flee. that's why i g s g 9 is

establishing a new base in berlin and is expanding the number of personnel about one 3rd. right now commander fox is on a reconnaissance flight. after another. we found. optimal landing site. or several others. seeing big cities have become targets but there have been attacks in berlin paris oslo russel's that's why we need g s g 9 here. in berlin. our aim was to expand our presence and berlin just started out at the expense of our base inside augustine's. we can only do that by bringing in new people.

otherwise i'd have to transfer personnel from our headquarters everywhere. the decision has been made to move part of the g.s.t. 9 to berlin but it's taking time one reason is that it's hard to find sites where the rigorous training program can be carried out so for the time being the men are being temporarily housed in the city and spend only a few weeks here. i assume we'll have our personnel permanently stationed in berlin by the end of 2020. be reinforced by an exchange with people from salt augustine and we'll keep doing that. the story of him. here commander folks is that the bundestag to meet the german parliament's police commander they're going to have

a look at the facilities security layout. of this group to move this is the largest buddhist talk office building 800 offices. fox is particularly interested in the service entrance in the buildings and. it's a star in this process we review the situation building by building although we can't analyze every possible detail. and the situation changes all the time. the main points for us are the location of the buildings was in deployment options for our units and the buildings and access points we leave the rest to the specialists who work there every day to talk to. it's would. love to have a look over there. not parliament house this is the heart of parliament you can see the ministers down there you see it there they are. you know.

this is a joint training exercise in television. g.s.t. 9 works with a number of foreign special ops units particularly israel's counterterrorist team called to. get the clue to organizations regularly exchange intelligence data and train together. what we saw in the movie. you will see that there are also. crimes in new york also. and organized. a 3rd in new york so we are more than happy to share of our world experience in this field with all of the callers we've got. brothers in arms.

right now the german israeli team is preparing to confront a group of terrorists who have taken over a kibbutz all just part of a normal days. before the trade. i mean people with their good luck oh yeah a lot of a little a lot a lot and that's yeah because i was also after places. you know it's we don't want for months we will. really look if you. look at what the look of it with the with the police will. already be there. it's normal for us almost all the dreams we do in a civilian place is there people the civilians are recruited for their cause ok for the cause of this one because to find it in the end to keep them safe.

young man whose mission is to do whatever it takes to stop terrorists. the israeli unit doesn't always collect as much evidence as g.s.t. 9 does but overall the german and the israeli methods are so similar that they can work together easily. no one here seems to have a problem with germans in combat gear running around and israeli housing estate money. this i've never heard anyone say what are they doing here going on for that as it is and it makes no difference whether i'm training in germany israel or somewhere else. that's not is a very interesting don't think anyone here is wired to bob germans walking around with guns as if this is in all of the data different or just it's normal for me to practice with you just you know a. little. and after work the germans and

israelis relax and get to know each other better. in the garden you have to keep it clean this is i'm talking about say that's. my family that's i spend most of the time when i'm at home with my family. we all have fun. no it's a dangerous job and we know why do it. where they are fighting terror we're fighting fair it's probably the same. the same goals eventually maybe we do it that way and they do it this way but to the same goal. that having manley's the retired returns 00000 you well find. it was.

not that high sweetheart. yes i have a seat. and. i want to go in the years that malise worked here she and moxie saw each other more often than they did this spouses. but they. can yes i've known him for 13 years. so what can i say. he watched me grow up here. and that is such a vicious fall i can say is that he's like a son to me a condom and soda and this is also what i love and that much. if i was having a tough time i'd ask her opinion and it was important to me that sometimes she'd set me straight she'd say young man life is not always fair when it comes to relationships you sometimes just have to deal with it but because it's never been

good. team is also worrying about the squad men this they never know exactly when their missions are going to be for real. only for men have been killed in action injurious to the nines history one of them was a real name to b.s. that. he was shot by snipers in iraq in 2004 and he was in moxi squad because i felt it was incredibly difficult for me to deal with. again he just wasn't there anymore he wasn't coming back and. it was just terrible. to have lot of you worry about all the guys in the unit would sign crime to know as a video for the media if i see on the news that g s g 9 is on a mission i keep a close eye on it that's just the way i am going and that monday might be and you

find yourself thinking. that you might wonder could and i hope they all come back safe and. before fast i wrote a letter and addressed it to my family and colleagues. of the kind of arm. and in that letter right mind what should happen if i were killed in the line of duty and at this into the code i just wanted to put my affairs in order. good a good example i wanted to specify who would tell my wife what would happen to me. if i don't want to die i know vince about something that i have to be prepared for . and i just put it all down on paper like a shopping list of the same. because trying to look at the situation without any emotion in the end calls this little smiles and i still damn but open wrote on it

who should be allowed to open the letter office. you're a good listener. the terrorist bomb is ready to go it's now a race against time. later yes report to the command post. here this is where all g s g 9 operations are coordinated to be available intelligence and other information is collected and then distributed to the appropriate officer in this case to me the squad leader. i've been instructed to intercept

a suspect believed to be preparing to use hazardous materials to carry out an attack and shots of. the jenin criminal police has identified the terrorist and the interior ministry has called in g.s.t. and. everyone will be in the tactical vehicle will follow this route and enter the underground car park. it was realized i have to make sure that we apprehend the suspect in a way that prevents him from. destroying any evidence getting away or harming members of the unit that's going to save the rest of my 1st priority is always the mission then protecting the matter of. the terrorist is apparently working with a highly potent talks and so the members of the unit are wearing protective suits.

the suits tight and it gets hot and sticky inside. there's no point worrying. if you know it and stay alert pay attention to details. rely on your training and things will turn out fine. the 1st christmas really it's the worst case for me right now would be for the suspect to shoot and wound one of my medics and logic is contaminated with hazardous materials. quantum in the everyone has to be prepared for that possibility if it's on but i'm not going to waste time worrying about it over to

someone who must have a vent. to strike team. strike team here. give me an update. you know the teams in the car park now. good. move in let's go let's go or something. roger that i don't. know what. the writers. carried out. there want.

what they want to. let me go half on the air and. the operation takes less than 30 seconds. we were inside. the casualties. so that was amazingly fast yeah that's why i didn't say anything before a woman wants me movin things can go quickly. but that's also when the tensions are greatest you're waiting for your men to tell you that the suspect has been apprehended in the building is clear it was on as local as you do what i was going on you do not want to hear that something's gone wrong. does not mean things are most tense they were going to close and. take over now the suspects in custody. and then mr gavan just take off your handcuffs i was then 1st and you know. it would as i said this exercise was intended to simulate tactical deployment and arrest

procedures you know overpowered so that's all for you today. a real terrorist wouldn't be this relaxed. at the very least i didn't have a chance and i didn't when they showed up it was all over the obvious then. so good then we've achieved our goal. and the other training exercise successfully completed the perpetrator has been caught and we will never know the identities of the g.s.t. 9 members who took part. because and that's when i hear people talk about g s g 9 without knowing that i mean it's on it's a vision that is when you find myself saying to myself that's me that's what i do for a living. i can't deny that. therefore in your office he will be a bit hypocritical to demand anonymity on the one hand and at the same time to go around bragging about my work. my reward is

a successful mission where we catch the perpetrators is a mission that i took part in and maybe even saying it to people's lives and. the truth of. both their own and also. the 2 men who came into contact with that terrorist and his talks and still have to be chemically disinfected the other squad members can take the rest of the day off. geas to 9 may be able to fight terrorism better than any other organization in germany but will never be able to eliminate it. 9 cannot in itself make us safer if security services don't get wind of an attack and it takes place and i'm special ops unit can solve the problem at that moment. as a free democratic and constitutional society well just have to live with the fact that

we'll never have 100 percent security. of individual terrorist campaigns to come to an end but terrorism has been used throughout history and especially in modern times and we can defeat terrorist groups and individuals but terrorism strategic use of violence will not go away in. the center of the conflict zone sebastien. hong kong never leaves the news for long these days for now it's the draft of a new security law to be imposed by beijing provoking calls. diversity and protests joining me this week from hong kong is regina is a member of the city's legislative council and chair of the probate junoon people's

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