(Euronews) Germany arrested two Iraqi nationals suspected of membership in the so-called Islamic State group (IS) on Tuesday in coordinated raids across five cities, the federal public prosecutor announced on Wednesday.
Muthana S and Kais S J were detained in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Delbrück, North Rhine-Westphalia, by officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office.
Both men are suspected of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation under German law and allegedly belonged to IS in Iraq for several months each during 2016 and 2017.
Kais S J worked for an IS Sharia committee while Muthana S served as a fighter, according to arrest warrants issued by a Federal Court of Justice investigative judge on 24 November.
