Christmas Market Attack Suspect Left a Decadelong Trail of Red Flags

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/the-decadelong-trail-of-red-flags-ahead-of-the-deadly-christmas-market-attack-a53dd961?mod=world_feat1_europe_pos1

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Enkers@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y

This is an almost universal problem for Western nations. With the rise of populism, the police are much more likely to be aligned with alt-right movements, so when alt-right extremists show red flags, they get ignored.

It'd almost be comical that this guy rejected one right-wing fascist ideology and then cozied right up with another if it wasn't so goddamned sad.