German Police Raid Islamists’ Flats, Mosque Over Suspected ISIS Ties

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German authorities ordered raids on Islamic religious and community centers as well as known Islamists’ flats in cities across Germany on suspicion of them having connections to ISIS Islamic terrorists in Syria.

Al-Arabiya The suspects, belonging to the ultra-conservative Salafist movement, are aged between 23 and 36 and police believe they were planning a violent attack although they made no arrests.
“We will not stand by and watch as the terrorist Islamic State (of Iraq and Syria) death squads in Syria and Iraq get support from Germany,” Joachim Herrmann, interior minister for the southern state of Bavaria, told reporters after detailing the raids.

A 20-year-old German man charged with joining Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in Syria last year went on trial last week in Frankfurt.
The raids took place as the United States and Arab allies launched air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda militants in Syria.
More than 400 German citizens have traveled to Syria to join ISIS and the Berlin government this month outlawed the organization, making ISIS propaganda, symbols and activities illegal.

In Tuesday’s raids, police seized computers, hard drives and electronic data from a flat in Fuerth and three flats in Nuremberg in southern Germany, where they also raided a mosque and Islamic center. They also searched a flat in Bonn in west Germany and two flats in Weyhe in the north. More