Is preparing an attack there were terrorists dont just and to kill a lot of people also to attract a big audience. The threat to germany has changed in recent years. Tell what is torture of the day terrorism is all about small operations with little logistical effort. Beyond the traditional of course islam as terrorism remains the dangers but theres also the growing threat of right wing terrorism wars. They intervene when no one else can help g s g 9 geminis the police unit. I would like people to be less afraid because they know that were here you. Know right now. Does t. Is to make germany safe we all follow these men on a daily routine so you know kind of mushy theyre not machines they have feelings. So i have written that said well not so 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 garden. This is also the headquarters of a special unit of germanys federal police the Border Protection group g s g 9. More than the all of them i was hired here at the barracks ive seen the chance chain 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 thats cool. Meanwhile the commander arrives at the side gate. For me this is how the day usually starts and its a pleasant retain a minimal okok. 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 in and well. Most of their work is top secret its the nature of their mission and thats why d. S. D. 9 insisted on prior approval of all the videos shown in this report. Of an american will take the case. Dont stop filming please. Accept for the commander we cannot reveal the identities of any other g s g 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 cant show our faces from time to come are. They saying roll call for the 3rd squad. Warrant more. We cant 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 theyll be using a practice every nation. 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 yet months someone to. Link has just an alias the men of t. S. T. 9 all have nicknames. You know. People get a nickname during training. Might be linked to something thats happened to them or to their real name. And theyll keep that nickname the entire time they hear. The g. s to 9 members have aliases like granny or meat and well then the squad leader is called mopsy. Commanders at home folks is also taking part in the exercise hes been the head of g. S. 29 for 5 years he spends most of his time in meetings but today hes right in the thick of things. We have a heavily armed perpetrator in a building that can only be reached from the air. The entrances are barricaded and possibly booby trapped. So well 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 a member of the socalled Islamic State his plan an attack that involves the use of the powerful toxin raisen. 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 it seemed far on an attack in which russell as you should have a devastating effect. On were not talking about the deaths of several people just pushing vengeful it would be much more seriously lads but me from guns i dont see in all your movies since id like them or weve long known from intelligence reports that terrorist groups are trying to carry out attacks with nuclear biological and chemical weapons im 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 rise in 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. So the authorities cant ban them outright our job is to find out whether these materials are going to be. Used illegally. Planned. Germanys 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. For a long time we dont with terrorists who try to organize attacks that would kill as many people as possible. Those attacks also involved elaborate planning. But then they switch 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 berlin when a nice unreplied a stolen truck into the Christmas Market killing 12 people. Although the socalled Islamic States has been defeated militarily there are almost 300 islamists in germany alone and Police Believe that they could attack at any time you know lets. Move. Life 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 talk 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 2900 synagogue attack and the murder of cusses. A few months and they are. Probably in this case the problems of right wing extremism and terrorism have been ignored for a long time months are going to be learned nothing from the n. S. A. You scan. Lost them in a swiss gondar in fact i believe that were seeing just the tip of the iceberg. We dont know yet how great the threat really is. Is the g. S. T. 9 squad leader mopsy and his men train every day to deal with these situations. In this drill gunman have dug in at an Industrial Park and are shooting at innocent civilians its just a Training Exercise but the tension is still real. And squad doesnt know the terrain theyre under extreme time pressure and they know that the assailants will stop at nothing you mean obviously if my men have no idea what theyre getting into they face a lot of risks in similar situations. Things are tense. In Training Missions we do things that you cant prepare for. You create conditions that put the squad under simulated pressure. Theres a lot of psychological stress. These men can dive dropping by parachute or of hell from a helicopter in seconds well 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 or heavily armed criminals. We do a lot of training and shooting a few so we can avoid the latter if possible and real watching 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 or most fish you can easily learn the skills necessary for this job for youve 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 and the team has a good in team that so our by you can kind of. I dont want to be rambo. We have to be cautious we cant just rush in and blow everything up as from this is that no ones going to open fire unless theyre in an immediate threat situation as a scorched operations. Since it was founded in the early 1970 s. Geas g 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 whats out there especially when youre being shot at. But if we werent afraid wed be the wrong people for the job. But wishes 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 works fine for us but how was it for you for going to. 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. Hes been on 50 Missions Including operations in ramadi iraq. To persuade or for among going for an i probably could have been a firefighter or another medic flipping me down or mentions who havent i just enjoy helping people remind us often i can do that with these units at a very high level and thats very satisfying or. It was a nice job really means a lot to me as a baby daughter doesnt feel. A terrorist is scouting locations he wants to kill as many people as possible and he wants to attract attention to. Those mr wild terrorism is an act of violence the border its main aim is to use symbolic highly visible dramatic acts of violence to spread fear among the public. Its all done for effect its a communication strategy that sends a message to a target audience and. You have done what its designed to affect our people use a public space for public transport go to work so. The terrorist wants to launch his rice an attack in berlin because of the city symbolic importance as germanys capital. In the world who and parliament and cities like carolyn that are hometown. Nations parliament and many other institutions of places with lots going on are attractive vaults of twentys or guns institutes who want to hear but exactly that makes them a prime target for terrorists offer to almost not hochtief. Terrilyn hasnt had a counterterrorism unit up to now and thats something were having to change. In the current elusive g. S. T. And 9 squads 3 no one suspects that an attack is imminent youve been practicing in secret all this time. I will. Every member of g s g 9 has its own bunk in the barracks although most live with their families nearby only a few actually sleep here. It smells of homemade carry the men spend more time in the barracks than anywhere else. How many banks are. In the ocean from probably 5. To morrow zorros going to the u. K. For 3 weeks Training Exercise. As part of go through and also im packing for an assignment in britains battalion. Im going to take an easy course with the british army you more equal time in. Class it was what is that me. Thats the m o e stands for explosive methods of entry. 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 their wife will look after the kids. Yeah as usual. Theyre good people talk a lot about Work Life Balance but all we do is work its 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. You cant talk to them about a lot of the work you do here with their firm you have the right sometimes they wouldnt understand anyway. Its an entirely different world. Id rather talk about it with a colleague theyre sort of like a 2nd family because you have material of course this can cause problems because your real family says that youre shutting them out thats. The way. That the g. S. T. And 9 men this great example cant 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. I tell them to be careful and not to mess up their family life. And if your wifes having a baby stay home with a. Plug in extreme cases ive had many call up and ask whether they should come into work. My job as a supervisor is easy i dont have to motivate my team the hard part is to slow them down and sometimes to protect them from themselves. When you know. This is monday. Morning 2. She worked as a key. She has 39 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 thats. The way i see it anyway are busy and that is i thought id have to tell them move those trying racks out of the courtyard we have to clean the floors now thats the time when the you also develop a certain level of trust so. The guys would leave their stuff lying around. And if youve been working on the same floor for years like me. Or you others. Guys learn to trust you. There are no women in 2 years 29 operational units just a few workers desk clocks others are employed as cleaners. Lets put it like this another woman showed up on my floor and i said is that really necessary. Im the only woman on the floor that was thats what it would be strange. We wont allow it. The i wouldnt like it im the mother to these boys and thats all there is to it other women just dont belong here you know actually my answer is you might but that doesnt mean women couldnt do the job. Why not if theyre sure to be one or 2 out there. Do you know the mission of course theyd have to meet the criteria excellent. I think that they might struggle with some of the physical demands. Do women really want to live among men i dont think so. Because. I was. I personally wouldnt have a problem with having women as colleagues they havent even tried to join since ive been here about. It have the foresight to have a wife i dont mind being around the guys a lot. But what if the come in roger e. Among the team members turns into an exaggerated isp lead a call. There have been some alarming incidents in special units of both the German Forces and the police. Thats what i know because i dont think that the presence of a team spirit or an elite attitude is the main problem at least not in the units that i know. The units that we supervise. And give you but these men have to trust each other and that often means that they try to sort things out among themselves who does money sometimes that can go too far and we respond too late and as much right as we have to prevent that forward. For example the German Armed Forces elite unit 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 mechlin but for a man named 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. This is not to lucian bizarre nor was a photographer 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. If i were to see an extreme case for example someone wearing a swastika on his uniform something so clear id be very worried is an open question but were just a crosssection of society assume that there are some of the supporters in g. S. T. Night as me but i cant confirm that. Kind its still i see no serious trends in that direction and weve all sworn an oath to protect germanys 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 he. Cant intervene because the actions at that stage im not in themselves against the law. Psycho to alicia 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. Were now aware of the possibility of a number of different terrorist attacks and areas. But our claw for example the bought a claw attack in paris and somebody 15 or Response Time was a decisive factor that. 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. Thats why g s g 9 is establishing a new base in berlin and is expanding the number of personnel about one 3rd. Reich now commander fox is on her become a since flight. After another brandenburg gate. We found. The optimal landing site. There are several others. Seeing big cities have become targets but there have been attacks in berlin paris oslo russels thats why we need g s g 9 here. In berlin. Our aim was to expand our presence in berlin and missed out at the expense of our base inside augustine. We can only do that by bringing in new people. Otherwise id have to transfer personnel from our headquarters to provide for. The decision has been made to move past of the g. S. T. 92000000000 but its taking time one reason is that its 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. And i assume well have our personnel permanently stationed in berlin by the end of 2020 and. Also be reinforced by an exchange with people from start augustine and what hes doing that. Here commander fixes at the bundestag to meet the german parliaments Police Command they going to have a look at the Facilities Security layout. Of the move this is the largest buddhist talk Office Building 800 offices. Folks is particularly interested in the Service Entrance in the buildings and. Its a star in this process we review the situation building by building although we cant 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 and we leave the rest to the specialists who work there every day that i was going to talk to at the start all but. Its good if you really care id love to have a look over there you can be a mom or. Not Parliament House is the heart of parliament you can see the ministers down there because its there they are. And. This is a joint Training Exercise in tel aviv. Followed. By the g. S. T. 9 works with a number of Foreign Special ops units particularly israels counterterrorist team called your mum will get the ritual denies a chance regularly Exchange Intelligence data and training together. What we saw in the lead if you will is that there are also. Crimes. Also. Organized. In new york so we are more than happy to share of our world experience in this field with. Colleagues with. Blood building noms. 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 where. The whole trade. With people would you know would look if you look at about a little bit more watch this oh yeah also after places. You know its we do it once a month we go. Look. It up we look like were working with. The police will. Already be there. Its normal for us almost all the drills we do in a civilian place is there people the civilians are recruited for their cause ok for the cause of this one because do you find it in the end to keep them safe. Young mans mission is to do whatever it takes to stop terrorists. The israeli unit doesnt 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 the need to lift this ive never heard anyone say what are they doing here going on for that as it is and it makes no difference whether im training in germany israel or somewhere else. Thats not is a very interesting model or i dont think anyone here is wired to bob johnson is Walking Around with guns but if this is you know all of the data different there are just its normal for me to practice with you just you know a. Little. Bit and after work the germans and israelis relax and get to know each other better after hours in the garden because that i mean this is and im talking about say that my of my hobbies are my family but thats i spend most of the time when im at home with my family. We all have fun im a little know its a dangerous job and we know why we do it. Where theyre fighting terror were fighting terror its probably the same. The same balls eventually maybe we do it there where they do it this way but the the same. Bobbing manleys the retired you know mom returns. Are you well thats fine. With. That guy sweetheart. Thats cool yes have a seat. In the years that malise worked here she and mopsy sue each other more often than they did this spells as. 20 years ive known him for 13 years. And i say he watched me grow up here. And that is such a vicious fall i can say is that hes like a son to me a condom and saw this ever so i love him that much. If i was having a tough time i dont ask her opinion and it was important to me that sometimes shed set me straight shed say young man life is not always fair when it comes to relationships you sometimes just have to deal with it. Because theres nothing good. Clean is also worrying about the squad member they never know exactly when their missions are going to be for real. Only for men have been killed in action injurious to 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 a marxist squad because i felt it was incredibly difficult for me to deal with. He just wasnt there anymore he wasnt coming back and. I was just terrible. As i had none of you worry about all the guys in the unit would sign cantona 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 thats just the way i am playing and that monday might be and you find yourself thinking. That you might wonder could just one thing and i hope they all come back safe and. If they fall fast i wrote a letter and addressed it to my family and colleagues. Of come of autumn. And in that letter right outlined what should happen if i were killed in the line of duty and it isnt. My little just wanted to put my affairs in order. Do they get their example i wanted to specify who would tell my wife what would happen to me. If i dont want to die i know vince and thats something that i have to be prepared for. And so i just put it all down on paper like a Shopping List of the same. Because i was trying to look at the situation without any emotion you know i calls this minute as my own and i still gamble open wrote on it who should be allowed to open the letter. But. Youre a good listener. Its terrorists bomb its ready to go its now a race against time. Later report to the command post. 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 his case to me the squad leader. Ive been instructed to intercept a suspect believed to be preparing to use Hazardous Materials to carry out an attack and shots of. The German 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. Was i have to make sure that we apprehend the suspect in a way that prevents him from. Destroying any evidence getting away or palming members of the unit thats just kind of says the rest of my 1st priority is always the mission then protecting the mad arms of. The terrorist is apparently working with a highly potent talks and so the members of the unit are wearing protective suits. Suits tight and it gets hot and sticky inside. Theres no point worrying. If you know to stay alert Pay Attention to details. Rely on your training and things will turn out fine. The 1st Christian Ministry of its a worst case for me right now would be for the suspect to shoot in one of my managed and largest manus contaminated with hazardous material. In the everyone has to be prepared for that possibility if its on but im not going to waste time worrying about it over that and someone must have a vent. To strike team. Strike team here. Forgive me update. Any of the teams in the car park now. Good. For movin lets go lets go or something. Roger that i dont. Know what. Carried out. There. What about the border. But i think i have forgotten. The operation takes less than 30 seconds. We were inside. I all casualties. That was amazingly fast yeah thats why i didnt say anything before as a government wants me moving things can go quickly. But thats also when the tensions are greatest youre waiting for your men to tell you that the suspect has been apprehended and the building is clear it was on as local as the other one was going on you do not want to hear that somethings gone wrong as there was in this announcement things a most tense they were going to close and. Take over now the suspects in custody. And then mr gavan just take off your handcuffs on 1st and then. You would as i said this exercise was intended to simulate tactical deployment and arrest procedures you know overpowered so thats all for you today. A real terrorist wouldnt be this relaxed. I didnt have a chance and i didnt have when they showed up it was all over the obvious. So theyre good then weve achieved our goal. And the other Training Exercise successfully completed the perpetrator has been poisoned and we will never know the identities of the g. S. T. 9 members who took part from it was understood when i hear people talk about g s g 9 without knowing that i mean its on its a vision that is when you find myself saying to myself thats me thats what i do for a living the ghosts of i cant 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 of the mission that i took part in maybe even saved peoples lives. The truth of war and. Welfare one 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. Heres jeanne i may be able to fight terrorism better than any other organization in germany but will never be able to eliminate it is it in this 9 cannot in itself make us safer if Security Services dont get wind of an attack and it takes place and im 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 well never have 100 Percent Security im supposed to look at individual terrorist campaigns to come to an end but terrorism has been used throughout history and especially in modern times. 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