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Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on German police reportedly foiling planned terror attack hours before UEFA Euro 2024 final · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right now, Devin Gray is with US our UK europe
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  Speaker 1: correspondent Kevin Germany apparently foiling a suspected TIRA plot. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about that.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you Ryan. Yeah. Unconfirmed, but it is
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  Speaker 2: said that the days before the final of the Euros,
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  Speaker 2: in which of course England football team were defeated by
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  Speaker 2: Spain two to one. It was last Sunday's big football showpiece.
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  Speaker 2: But it's now been claimed that in the days before that,
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  Speaker 2: police in Germany managed to foil a suspected terrorist plot
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  Speaker 2: by Islamic State. It was said that there was the
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  Speaker 2: potential to attack a fan zone, so where fans don't
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  Speaker 2: have tickets, they obviously go to a big screen in
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  Speaker 2: a big area, and it was said to be in
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  Speaker 2: Berlin's sprawling bright shiped flats. Thousands of supporters did gather there,
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  Speaker 2: but that was after three suspects had been detained by
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  Speaker 2: German special forces coordinated raids in the nearby Potsdam district,
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  Speaker 2: and it was said that of those it is thought
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  Speaker 2: that people were taking pictures on their phones of the
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  Speaker 2: area beforehand, so it said the men were known to
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  Speaker 2: Islamic that were known as Islamic State supporters already to
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  Speaker 2: German surveillance and of course round Let's not forget all
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  Speaker 2: this before the Olympics starts in Paris amid very type
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  Speaker 2: security on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a worry, isn't it. And I know
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  Speaker 1: I've got about forty five thousand police officers who can
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  Speaker 1: be in the city for the opening ceremony. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Leeds riots and Leads.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Leeds, big city in Yorkshire, northeast of England.
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  Speaker 2: And when the local authority turned up with police in
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  Speaker 2: order to take some children away from one particular family.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have any more details, but obviously the authorities
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  Speaker 2: did not think the children were safe. All of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden they were surrounded by lots of other people thought
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  Speaker 2: to be from the Roma community, of which there is
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  Speaker 2: a large ethnic population of Roma in the Harehells district Leads.
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  Speaker 2: It led to some violence. Police were attacked with things
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  Speaker 2: being thrown at them, but also if police car was overturned,
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  Speaker 2: officers telted as I mentioned, and a bus was set
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  Speaker 2: on fire. Well, a man has now been charged with
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  Speaker 2: arson and violent disorder because of the bus, and five
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  Speaker 2: others have been arrested on suspicion and violent disorder lots
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  Speaker 2: of very good pictures on social media of those who
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  Speaker 2: were said to be the ringleaders, and the Home Secretary
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  Speaker 2: saying this was just absolutely audacious, senseless violence and it
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  Speaker 2: will not be allowed and the police are to take
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  Speaker 2: the full force of action against those that are found responsible.
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  Speaker 2: Conditions there still said to be very tense in the
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  Speaker 2: Ahals area as the children are still away from the
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  Speaker 2: family and the family say they want the children back.
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  Speaker 2: They've done nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh, it does sound like a very distressing situation. Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time. Kevin Gray, UK
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  Speaker 1: europe Correspondent.
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