German Police Raid Properties, Detain Two Salafists

Rasa - German police arrested two men in a series of raids Thursday who they said were members of a Salafist group that was planning attacks.

News ID: 427246

Date: 09 February 2017 - 23:48

RNA - Police said they had carried out the raids on 19 sites after indications of a "possible concrete impending terrorist attack" by terrorists.

The men arrested were a 27-year-old Algerian and a 23-year-old Nigerian, Reuters reported.

Salafism is an ultra-fundamentalist ideology that is particularly prevalent in Saudi Arabia. It is intolerant of what its adherents consider "deviant".

The ideology is led by prominent Salafist preacher Ibrahim Abou-Nagie, who was born in a refugee camp in Gaza and moved to Germany when he was 18. He later became a German national.

Germany has banned several terrorist associations in recent years, including Daesh in 2014.

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