Arrests as German police raid Islamists on suspicion of terrorism in Berlin
German police have arrested two people in Berlin following raids on numerous properties linked to radical Islamic Salafists. The searches began shortly after Belgium police killed two men in a similar police operation.
More than 200 German police officers raided suspected Islamist hotspots in and around the country’s capital, Berlin, early Friday. Authorities arrested the suspected leader of a group allegedly preparing to carry out an attack in Syria, along with a person responsible for the group’s finances, police said.
Police alleged that the men were suspected of recruiting fighters and of procuring equipment and funding for the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist group in Syria.
One of the men arrested, identified as Ismet D., in accordance with German privacy laws, a 41-year-old man of Turkish origin. He was “suspected of leading an Islamist extremist group made up of Turkish and Russia nationals from (the Caucasus regions of) Chechnya and Dagestan,” German police said in a statement. Adding, “there is no indication that the group was preparing attacks inside Germany.”
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Source News: DW
