The Union calls for immediate action in view of the imminent release of terrorists in prison.

"The security and judicial authorities of the federal and state levels must act now to avert harm to the population," said the domestic policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Alexander Throm, of the FAZ How real the threat to Islamists released from prison is has been known since the attacks in Vienna and Dresden last year.

Timo Steppat

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The President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, warned on the weekend of a wave of layoffs in the coming year. At the request of the FAZ, however, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution was unable to report how many extremists were in custody and how many should soon be released from custody. Some countries say they each have a low double-digit number of extremists in custody. No figures are available from Thuringia and North Rhine-Westphalia.

According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the number of religiously motivated threats nationwide is 550;

a hundred of them are in jail.

However, the figures from the state ministries of justice show that there are far more.

According to the Ministry of Justice, 71 prisoners are classified as Islamist terrorist in Bavaria alone.

There is apparently no nationwide picture of the situation that connects the surveys.

That must be changed urgently, says Union politician Throm.

Data protection concerns should not stand in the way of this.

From security circles it is said that there are sometimes difficulties in the exchange between police authorities and the judiciary.

Neumann: Worry that something has to happen before there are plans

Terrorism expert Peter Neumann from King's College in London also criticizes the fact that there are no standardized figures. This made it difficult to assess the situation in Germany. There is also no uniform, comprehensive procedure for the dismissal of terrorists. According to the Federal Ministry of Justice, there is a case conference on the risk assessment of extremists in "almost all" federal states. Neumann calls for a nationwide integrated concept like the one in the Netherlands. "Unfortunately, I fear that something has to happen before such plans can be implemented across Germany as well," Neumann told the FAZ

CDU internal politician Throm suggested that the deportation of foreign threats should be examined.

He also called for the introduction of subsequent preventive detention for prisoners who had radicalized themselves in custody.

The state needs this means to protect the population from "ticking time bombs".