Germany

Anti-Terror RAID in Mainz

The police searched in the nearby capital of Rhineland-Palatinate the homes of two Suspects. Evidence of concrete attack plans, it should not give.

The two men were suspicious in the Syrian civil war a “foreign terrorist organization” involved, informed a spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe. Notes on concrete Anschlagsplanungen would not previously. Whether it’s arrests, or the investigator objects or documents to make, wanted the speaker does not say. Also to the nationalities of the Suspects, he made no mention of this.

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Alleged IS fighter

According to information of the news “Spiegel Online,” one of the Suspects to an alleged high-ranking fighters of the Terrormiliz “Islamic state” (IS). Before the man would Syrian activists on the Internet to warn, “Spiegel online”. Consequently, he IS once used as suicide bombers tendered. The Syrians hold since the fall as a refugee in Germany and I live in the village of Sankt Johann, just South of Mainz. On request by Spiegel TV, even before the RAID took place, denied he ever IS to be had.

With the use of it is to the second police action against terrorist suspects within a week. During a RAID on Thursday in Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia and lower Saxony had investigators of an alleged Islamic terrorist cell broken up. Four IS-followers should probably make a stop in Berlin have planned. Is determined against four Algerians, aged between 26 and 49 years of age because of the suspicion of preparing a serious staatsgefährdenden act of violence. There were two arrests.

wl/ml (dpa, afp)