Numerous police officers move out in Hesse on Wednesday: the investigators’ suspicions are directed against alleged donors of terrorist activities by the Islamic State.
Ten apartments in Hesse were searched on Wednesday on suspicion of supporting the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).
According to the investigators, the background was five preliminary investigations into suspected terrorist financing and the preparation of a serious, state-endangering act of violence. “There was no concrete risk of an attack,” said a spokesman for the State Criminal Police Office.
The raid focused on ten suspects. The two women and eight men between the ages of 20 and 51 are reportedly German, Afghan, Kosovar and Turkish nationals.
There was no arrest in the morning’s action, in which police officers were involved in the lower three-digit range. “We have had no arrest warrants,” said the spokeswoman for the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor Nadja Niesen, the German press agency.
During the investigation, four cases concerned the suspicion of financing the IS with donations. In one case there was a suspicion of the preparation for an act of violence. Data carriers, cash and other evidence were seized during the action. In the course of the raid, two search warrants of the federal prosecutor’s office were carried out against three alleged IS supporters.
With the exception of Frankfurt, all Hessian police headquarters were involved in the action. The apartments in Darmstadt and Kassel were searched, in one case also in Switzerland because one of the suspects had traveled there.
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