German police on Thursday raided homes, offices and refugee shelters in the hunt for four suspected Algerian jihadists including one linked to ISIS.
Source: German Police Raid Homes, Refugee Shelters in Hunt for ISIS-Linked Jihadis – NBC News
MAINZ, Germany — Police raided homes, offices and refugee shelters across Germany early Thursday in a hunt for four suspected Algerian jihadists — including one linked to an ISIS training camp.
Special police forces confiscated “computers, mobile phones and notes,” according to a statement from Berlin police.
The raids targeted “four people from the jihadist scene” and were triggered by Berlin’s general prosecutor and conducted in coordination with Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the statement said.
One of the suspects was also being sought by Algerian officials for ISIS membership, officials said.
“We know that at least one of the men received military training” in an ISIS terror camp, Berlin police spokesman spokesman Stefan Redlich told NBC News.
The raids were carried out on four apartments and two work places in Berlin, as well as two refugee shelters in the states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
“Two of the suspects are believed to be living in refugee shelters,” Redlich said.
Two men and one woman, who had been sought by police for other reasons, were arrested during the raids, but authorities did not say if any of the suspected jihadists had been detained.
