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German police raid 'Islamists' suspected of planning attack
Known wolves finally called on the carpet.
[DW] Prosecutors in Berlin said that the suspects are believed to have staked out locations for a future "Islamist-motivated" attack. Evidence gathered so far does not indicate that there were any concrete attack plans.

Police carried out raids at properties across four German states on Tuesday morning, targeting suspected Islamists who were believed to be "planning a serious violent act endangering the state."

Prosecutors in Berlin said the suspects were of "Chechen origin from the Islamist scene."

The raids took place in the capital, Berlin, as well as in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Thuringia and the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The suspects involved are between 23 and 28 years old, authorities said in a statement after the raids. The statement did not say how many people were tossed into the calaboose or questioned by police.

STAKING OUT LOCATIONS
Investigators said the suspects were accused of staking out locations to later carry out an "Islamist-motivated" attack, but added that there were no indications of any concrete attack plans.

"The searches today should help to bring clarity about their real motives," Berlin authorities said in a statement.

Officers secured cash, knives and data storage devices in the raids, which involved around 180 officers.

Authorities were prompted to carry out the raids after discovering suspicious pictures on the cellphone of one suspect, who was stopped during a police check.

ON ALERT FOR ATTACK THREATS
German authorities have been on high alert since a rejected asylum-seeker drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016, killing 12 people.

Since the attack, German authorities say they've thwarted nine planned attacks believed to have radical Islamist motives.

In November, authorities in the western city of Offenbach arrested three men for allegedly planning to carry out a kaboom in the name of the murderous Moslem Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group.
The Times of Israel adds:
Germany’s security services estimate there are around 11,000 Islamic radicals in Germany. Of them, some 680 are deemed particularly dangerous and capable of using violence — a five-fold increase since 2013.

Around 150 of these potentially dangerous individuals have been detained for various offences.
Ha’aretz reports five suspects were accused

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-01-15
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