Bernhard Falk knows prisons. As a left-terrorist, he was held for twelve years behind bars. Now he cared for imprisoned Islamists. The protection of the Constitution holds Falk for a danger to society.
It is one of the advantages of the rule of law that he applies to his protection rules to opponents who reject him deeply. Even those who want to abolish the democratic System and with violence for an Islamic state is fighting, has the right to a fair trial with a lawyer of his choice. And it is precisely here that the self-field of work of Bernhard Falk, said starts. The massive man with gray describes a full beard and semi-bald head of themselves as “helpers”.
Falk’s use of places, courtrooms, and prisons. He is in charge of Germany prisoners. Not any, but Islamist prisoners: returnees from Syria who have fought allegedly for the so-called “Islamic state” or any other terrorist group; members of the German Salafist scene, which is accused for the alleged jihadist recruits or young men at the exit to the middle Eastern war zone helped; Islamists, who have sent money or equipment to the IS-field; is accused of having radicalized people, which the planning of attacks in Germany. For Bernhard Falk, you are all “Muslim political prisoners in the FRG”.
Precisely 122 on the multi-page list, which he presented to the German wave in a Park in Frankfurt. Just he has visited in the neighbouring country court proceedings against Bilal Gümüs. The Frankfurt Islamist to have helped a 16-Year-old at the time of departure to Syria to the IS-area, just a few weeks later, the student was killed in a Fight.
The Left’s Terrorist Past
The Islamist Falk speaks of “political prisoners of Germany”, is no coincidence. Just as little is it a coincidence that he Videos as the “heart of the imperialist beast,” describes in his YouTube: Bernhard Falk has a left-terrorist past. He carried out several attacks, was convicted of attempted murder in four cases, and sat twelve years in prison. In 2008, he was released.
On Falk’s list of 122 prisoners, who he calls “Muslim political prisoners in the FRG”
His time behind bars to rush him, says Falk, in particular, the five years of pretrial detention. “My process was about 134 days of trial at the higher regional court of Düsseldorf. Because of this experience I said to myself that it really is time to help the Muslim political prisoners do not know their rights, to exercise those.” According to his own statement, his Muslim Faith, Falk has helped to survive the long detention time.
The path to Islam was not placed in the North of Germany, grown up to Falk in the cradle. He was brought up Catholic and was for ten years an altar boy. While his brother was a Catholic priest, drew Bernhard Falk to physics. In Aachen, he studied elementary physics: the study of the smallest things that hold the world together in its innermost. Through his studies, he met an Iranian woman, and looked about her for the first Time, with Islam. In addition to the, as he says, “the revolutionary potential of Islam” have fascinated him to this Religion, the Logical and the prompt to use the senses. While Falk built for the “anti-imperialist cell” bombs, was left Catholic, a Muslim.
“Brother,” Muntasir bi-lllah, as he calls himself since then, in an interview with Deutsche Welle awake and chooses each of his words. Even if he is not a lawyer: the all-black-dressed 51-Year-old knows how far he can go without coming into conflict with the law. Open support for a terrorist organization such as the IS or Al-Qaeda you will not hear from him. But “understanding” that some people go the way of terror – or, in Falk’s words: the way of the “militant resistance”: “When people in different countries think, to choose certain methods, then that is your decision,” lectured he and adds: “the fact That there are militant resistance groups in the world, is a fact – whether you like the good or bad.”
Also in 2017, to five and a half years in prison sentenced Sven Lau is supported by Falk in detention
The wife of the alleged Ricin bomber
In the case of the prisoners, whom he cared, one had to expect that someone is “from a German point of view a criminal past. Prisoners are making no Heroes.” But Falk does not want to judge them: “I am someone who is trying regardless of what happened in the individual case, to show some solidarity.” Therefore, Falk Salafists supported preacher Abu Walaa. The native Iraqis is considered number 1 of the terrorist organization “Islamic state” in Germany. He is since September 2017 as a defendant before the higher regional court of Celle, because he is a young men’s self-proclaimed Caliphate is supposed to have taught. Falk also helps Sven Lau, who is one of the best-known German Salafists. The judge at the higher regional court of Düsseldorf had Lau sentenced in July of 2017, to five and a half years in prison. According to the court, he had taught the recruits for the jihadists militia “Jamwa” (army of emigrants and supporters) in Syria.
Falk also has contact Yasmin H. she is the wife of terror suspect Islamists Sief Allah h was in this summer, as the suspected “Ricin bomb-maker” of Cologne. Sief Allah had ordered over the Internet, large quantities of castor seeds, chemicals, with help from the seeds of the highly toxic Ricin. Also found, according to the police in the apartment of the native Tunesiers the ingredients for an explosive device. Yasmin H. is said to have supported her husband during the alleged attack preparations and has been sitting for July in Gelsenkirchen in custody. “If I, for example, because of the so-called Rizinfalls imprisoned wife visits, I will discuss with you whether your TV is now finally arrived in the cell and whether it has, for once, a book in her cell,” explains Falk for his help, for Imprisoned.
Ricin-shock in June, 2018: In a Cologne high-rise was probably due to a Bio-bomb rigged
Saudi Arabian jihadist preacher as a model
As the German wave asks him about his religious orientation, is called the Falk, the radical Wahhabi preacher, Sulaiman Al-Ulwan – a Saudi theorist of militant Jihad. Al-Ulwan has justified suicide attacks against Jews and the destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan by the Afghan Taliban welcomed. Their now deceased leader, Mullah Omar praised the fundamentalist, Saudi-preacher as a “commander of the faithful”. Because of its ideological proximity to Al-Qaeda, Suleiman Al-Ulwan was sitting in Saudi Arabia in prison. Also his German followers of Bernhard Falk is occasionally said to have a close proximity to Al-Qaeda, most recently at the end of August of Eren Recberlik. The German safety authorities gave Recberlik for many years as a Salafist threat. Meanwhile, the young man has dropped out of the scene.
Bernhard Falk is regularly mentioned in the protection of the Constitution report of the country North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), in which he lives. The recent report of the NRW Constitution guards noted: “(Falk) takes the view that the Federal Republic of Germany operates a fight against ‘the Islam’, and stands for what he Feel is absolutely necessary ‘Islamic resistance against the imperialism of the USA, Germany and Israel’.”
The Constitution guards noticed his positive Remarks to Al-Qaeda groups. Overall, you are expected to”Falk, at least ideologically, to the area of the jihadist Salafism”. The NRW protection of the Constitution President Burkhard Free look in Falk’s prisoners-care is a great danger. “In reality, the support of extremists for persons to be held in the extremist scene,” he stresses in an interview with Deutsche Welle. “The prisoners are to be held by each rehabilitation.”
Falk holds the self-aware: “If the prisoners can still have social references and social thinking and action to their captivity, then I will have made a contribution. A collapsing or mentally drift of the prisoner cannot be in the interest of the state.” On his Facebook page Falk calls regularly, Islamist prisoners encouraging letters or to pray for you. And donate for his work. “I’m depending on that to me people from the scene, usually from the members area, make a donation, so I can drive to more distant cities.”
Books in Cologne, children in Dortmund
A regulated work Falk. He accused the police state protection, in the case of potential employers, the mood against him. State support such as unemployment benefits or social assistance, he is not related to the information. Falk has no own apartment, but two women: “You can say so: In Cologne In my books. In Dortmund, my children. Both of those are already for reasons of space within an apartment imaginable.”
No Problem with the German school system: Falk at the Enrolment of his daughter
The children will also be presented on Falk’s Facebook page, most recently with the Enrollment of his daughter in this summer. The girl goes to a normal primary school, preparing the system opponent appears to be no problems: “It goes to the mediation of property, plant behavior and language in a clean Form. And everything that belongs to the career of a child,” says Falk. “A Protestant Kindergarten, or even a Christian school will be quite capable of”, said the Salafist, adding: “as you can see from my example, you can also find it as the son of a Christian senior secondary teacher of the path to Islam.”
Battle and mission
For the condemned terrorists, the Religion is perfectly in line with his fight against what he announced today on his Twitter Account the “imperialism of the USA, Germany and Israel”. Only it is now “Muslim resistance”. Islam is for Falk “is not only something purely contemplative. But it is something that has an impact in all aspects of life, including the social and political areas.” He sees it as his task, “the political consciousness of the Muslims a bit of a refresh and update.”
Bernhard Falk wants to brush up on “the political consciousness of the Muslims”
With the rather missionary set the main flow of Salafism Falk can start according to its own figures, however, little. “This is something that does not appeal to me at all.” However, despite all the differences of opinion with other senior figures of the scene: In the case of arrests or house searches Falk’s services, for example in the placement of lawyers to be used by Salafis of all the currents.
And something else is striking: Falk pray almost exclusively to home. In the mosques, he is not seen. Also he does state printing. “The mosques have a fear Forbidden, if you let the notes of the state protection ignored.” At the end of the encounter the image of a gifted idealists remains on the dangerous detours, the stylized himself and his Religion – to the victims.