A series of arrests of alleged Islamists – Money.pl

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann [Photo: Gerd Seidel (Rob Irgendwer) / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia]

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the arrest a week ago on the border with Austria, two residents of Munich, who intended to take part in the fighting on the side of Islamists in Syria.

Men traveled by coach to Salzburg in Austria. Control of the border showed that against one of their proceedings are pending in connection with the recruitment of volunteers in Germany to participate in jihad.

On Saturday at the airport in Frankfurt am Main police arrested three Germans suspected of belonging to the running Somali Islamist militia Al-Shabaab. A week earlier, two other members of this group – as reported by Austrian daily Der Standard – arrested in Kenya. Associated with Al-Qaeda Al-Shabaab from years at war, to remove the country’s government supported by the West and introduce Sharia law.

The head of the German Ministry of the Interior Thomas de Maiziere said before noon in the Bundestag that Islamists returning to Germany the wars in the Middle East, pose a serious threat. learned to hate and kill – said the Minister. He pointed out that the task of the police is to prevent this by radicalized militants brought jihad to German cities.

In Germany, politicians are demanding stricter regulations. Currently, participant training camp for terrorists be punished only if he participated in exercises with the specific intent to commit a terrorist attack.

The German authorities estimate at 400 the number of German citizens currently fighting on the side of the jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

A series of arrests of alleged Islamists – Money.pl