(Deutsche Welle) Police carried out raids at properties across four German states on Tuesday morning, targeting suspected Islamists who were believed to be “planning a serious violent act endangering the state.”
Prosecutors in Berlin said the suspects were of “Chechen origin from the Islamist scene.”
The raids took place in the capital, Berlin, as well as in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Thuringia and the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The suspects involved are between 23 and 28 years old, authorities said in a statement after the raids. The statement did not say how many people had been detained or questioned by police.
