They said they would do this, so this should surprise exactly no one.
BERLIN — The Islamist extremist who staged a failed attack on a Paris police station last week had been living in home for asylum seekers in western Germany, police said, raising further fears that militants may be infiltrating Europe disguised as migrants.
Revelations that the assailant — shot and killed by French authorities Thursday as he approached a police station with a butcher knife and a fake suicide vest — was trying to pass as an asylum seeker is likely to trigger further debate about the vetting and processing of hundreds of thousands of newcomers seeking sanctuary in Europe from the war-torn Middle East. The man had gone under several aliases, and at one point claimed to be from Syria, according to German news reports.