The refugees uber alles crowd is claiming that he isn't a "real" refugee. Whatever that is. But at the end of the day, the whole argument here has been that the chaos involved in bringing large numbers of people from terror zones into the country opens up opportunities for terrorists and terror supporters to enter. And that does keep happening.
The individual was shot dead by French police on Thursday after he tried to storm a police station in northern Paris, brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a fake suicide vest.
The assault took place exactly one year since the start of a series of jihadist attacks in France, marked by the killing of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on January 7 2015.
On Saturday, German investigators assisting the probe into the police-station attack raided an apartment at a shelter for asylum-seekers in Recklinghausen, in the west of the country.
The news site Spiegel Online reported, meanwhile, that the man had already been classed by German police as a possible suspect after he posed at the refugee centre with an IS flag, but he disappeared in December.
He had used different names in separate registrations with German authorities, and filed for asylum using the name Walid Salihi, according to the newspaper.
The man had also given different nationalities at each registration, once saying he was Syrian, another time saying he was Moroccan, and on yet another occasion, Georgian.
The entire situation makes it virtually impossible to verify who anyone is which makes it a playground for terrorists. That's why migration to the West from terror states must stop.
The man was known to German authorities under at least seven different identities before, committed numerous offenses and was serving a one-month prison sentence in August, the director of the bureau of criminality North Rhine-Westphalia, Uwe Jacob, said.
Already in 2014 he was also convicted by the Amtsgericht Recklinghausen for drug offenses and sentenced to two weeks detention. In a Cologne nightclub he is said to have groped women. According to investigators, the man was in the New Year's Eve, when it came to mass attacks in Cologne, but not in Germany. The man was also once arrested in Sweden and extradited to Germany.