According to the protection of the constitution, there are currently 950 Salafists living in Berlin - around twice as many as in 2011. Among them, according to the information, there are only a few refugees.
The Islamist-Salafist scene in Berlin according to findings of the protection of the Constitution currently 950 people, more than twice as many as in 2011. The proportion of violence-oriented among them grew even stronger, reported the "Tagesspiegel" , citing a situation analysis of Berlin Constitutional protection. Six years ago, it had been about a hundred people; To date, the number has more than quadrupled.
For the booklet entitled "Background to the members of the Salafist spectrum", the data for 748 Salafists were evaluated according to the report. In the overall picture, the impression arises that "the members of the Salafist spectrum in Berlin are above average".
Accordingly, men dominate with almost 90 percent. On average, they are 33.9 years old, one year older than women. Half of the scene members are Germans, of whom just under a third have a dual nationality. According to the report, the passports of Arab countries and Turkey dominate. "Conspicuous" according to the constitution protection, that among the purely foreign Salafists Russian nationals formed the largest group. Most of them are people from the North Caucasus - Chechens, Ingush, Dagestan and Ossetians.
The number of refugees in the Berlin Salafistenszene is low. The protection of the Constitution speaks of currently 27 people who arrived in Germany from 2014 and arrived in Berlin. They came mainly from Syria , Iraq , Afghanistan and Russia .
The Salafists are an Islamist movement that is strictly based on the early days of Islam . They demonize the customs of unbelievers and impious Muslims. Very different groups today call themselves Salafist.