German police raid homes and mosques, arrest Tunisian suspected of planning attack

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German police raid homes and mosques, arrest Tunisian suspected of planning attack

REUTERS

 

German police officers leave Frankfurt's Bilal mosque during early morning raids in the federal state of Hesse and its capital Frankfurt, Germany, February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - More than 1,100 German police searched 54 homes, business premises and mosques in Frankfurt and other towns in the western state of Hesse in the early hours of Wednesday and arrested a Tunisian man suspected of planning an attack, German authorities said.

 

The 36-year-old Tunisian is suspected of recruiting for Islamic State in Germany since August 2015 and building up a network of supporters with the aim of carrying out a terrorist attack in Germany, Frankfurt's prosecutor general said in a statement.

 

It said police had carried out the raids in Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach am Main, Darmstadt, Limburg and Wiesbaden as well as in some other districts. Authorities are investigating 16 suspects aged between 16 and 46, including the arrested man.

 

The attack plans were at an early stage and there was no concrete attack target yet, the prosecutor general said.

 

Peter Beuth, interior minister of the state of Hesse, said there had not been any immediate danger: "It was not about preventing an imminent attack - rather security forces in Hesse intervened early to protect citizens from the threat of harm."

 

Beuth added that the officers involved in the raids had managed to "destroy an extensive Salafist network". Salafism is an ultra-conservative branch of Sunni Islam.

 

Prosecutors in Frankfurt are due to hold a news conference at 1000 local time (0900 GMT).

 

German police arrested three men in Berlin on Tuesday on suspicion of having close links to Islamic State militants and planning to travel to the Middle East for combat training.

 

Many Germans feel unnerved after Anis Amri, a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia, killed 12 people when he attacked a Berlin Christmas market in December - the worst of a spate of attacks on civilians in Germany over the past year.

 

(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Toby Chopra)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-02-01

[sweatalot]

If the German police would do some profiling the might find close to a million potential terrorists

[yogavnture]

that's what u get when u just let people in your country with out background checks

[siam2007]

7 hours ago, yogavnture said:

that's what u get when u just let people in your country with out background checks

 

How do you want to perform a background check when somebody suddenly appears on your soil with no documents whatsoever but 18 identities ?

[yogavnture]

1 hour ago, siam2007 said:

 

How do you want to perform a background check when somebody suddenly appears on your soil with no documents whatsoever but 18 identities ?

u don't allow suddenly appear///

[soc]

2 hours ago, siam2007 said:

 

How do you want to perform a background check when somebody suddenly appears on your soil with no documents whatsoever but 18 identities ?

You throw them out.

How simple is that?

[siam2007]

On 02/02/2017 at 7:20 PM, yogavnture said:

u don't allow suddenly appear///

 

That is a very naive statement. If they suddenly "appear" in Germany, this automatically means they arrive from another EU country. And you can not safeguard ten thousands of kilometers of border between EU and non-EU. The EU is not an island like the UK or Japan or Sinfapore

[siam2007]

On 02/02/2017 at 8:05 PM, soc said:

You throw them out.

How simple is that?

 

another complete nonsense blabla.

Throw them out to WHERE ??? Even if they have valid documents or have committed crimes, it is very difficult to just "throw them out" as their native countries in most cases refuse to take them back. And if those countries r considered "unsafe" countries, there is no such option anyway

[Dagnabbit]

 
How do you want to perform a background check when somebody suddenly appears on your soil with no documents whatsoever but 18 identities ?

Put them in a camp till they can prove where they are from. Then send them back there.


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[halloween]

The idea of refurbishing a few WWII era concentration camps may not be politically acceptable, but is there any other practical solution?

IMHO the whole concept of accepting any dogsbody because he claims his home country is not safe needs a complete rethink. The monetary and social costs of filtering and assimilating both genuine and fake claims goes beyond what the citizens of the target countries should be expected to bear.