Berlin was apparently Anschlagsziel

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Berlin was apparently Anschlagsziel

Berlin may be targeted by IS-terrorists are forgotten. After raids in three States the prosecutors believe that alleged Islamists to an attack in the capital planned.

The officials suggested at the same time in three States: Approximately 450 security forces searched the Morning several apartments in Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia and lower Saxony. In Berlin, there were also raids in a bakery shop and a Kiosk. Is determined against four Algerians, aged between 26 and 49 years of age because of the suspicion of preparing a serious staatsgefährdenden a crime of violence, as the police in Berlin announced.

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In a large-scale operation of the police in Berlin and in North Rhine-Westphalia are two of the Islamists has been taken. According to dpa-information there is a suspicion that one of the IS Terrormiliz controlled stop was planned. (04.02.2016)

Three Arrests

“It is possible Anschlagsplanungen for Germany – specifically Berlin”, said the spokesman for the Berlin public Prosecutor, Martin Steltner. Reports, according to which a stop at Alexanderplatz in Berlin city centre, it had been planned, he confirmed but did not.

The news Agency dpa reported, citing safety circuits, the Suspects would have in listening on calls about possible attack targets in Berlin to entertain. A telephone conversation was about gone, if for example the “Checkpoint Charlie” in the city centre is a worthwhile target of attack. The police confirmed this is not. In safety circuits, it was said, a connection to the terror alerts on new years eve in Munich or to the cancellation of a soccer international match in Hanover in November, is not currently visible.

During the RAID were after Polizeiangaben two men and a woman because of already existing arrest warrants were arrested. In addition, be computers, mobile phones and records have been seized.

Hauptverdächtiger traveled as a refugee to Germany

As Hauptverdächtiger the terrorist cell is a 35-Year-old. He and his wife were in a refugee camp in the North Rhine-Westphalia Attendorn arrested. The man was apparently as a refugee who travelled to Germany. Newspapers of the Funke media group reported that he had according to information from security sources in the autumn via the Balkan route to Germany and in Bavaria as a refugee has been registered. The man was therefore of the Algerian authorities with an international arrest warrant is sought. Him and his wife membership in the Dschihadistenorganisation “Islamic state” (IS) accused. A further in Berlin who is arrested is forgery accused. He should passports have faked.

Connections to the attacks in Paris?

A suspect, but not arrested, according to information of the news Agency dpa Compounds to Belgian Islamists. The 26-Year-old, the police in Hannover, met, was only a few weeks ago at least once in the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek traveled, as Islamistenhochburg. There was the alleged mastermind behind the Paris attacks by 13. November of last year, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, lived.

According to a report in the Berliner “Tagesspiegel” should be leading members of the IS in Syria the attack have been commissioned. It was, in part, to the same IS-squad traded, which is also behind the attacks of November in Paris put had, the newspaper reported, citing security analysts.

cr/kle (dpa, afp, rtr, epd)