(Deutsche Welle) Police in Germany’s western state of North Rhine-Westphalia carried out raids against suspected Islamist extremists on Thursday. Officers were searching for “concrete indications” of a planned attack, authorities said.
Sniffer dogs were present as the police searched for explosives, but officers confirmed late Thursday that they had not found any explosives on site.
The search was concentrated on six apartments in the city of Düren, but a building site in Cologne was also investigated after security services received credible tipoffs.
Six men were detained “for reasons of averting danger,” police said after the raids. One, a 30-year-old Lebanese-German national, was said to have links to a Salafist and jihadi group in Berlin.
