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Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:00 UTC Hundreds of police were part of the dawn raids in Moabit and other Berlin neighborhoodsAuthorities in the German capital have announced a ban on the radical Islamist group Jamaatu Berlin following a series of dawn raids. Berlins Senate has announced on Twitter that it has banned the "jihadist-Salafist association Jamaatu Berlin," also known as Tauhid Berlin. The tweet Thursday said police in Berlin and Brandenburg had carried out early-morning searches of properties b...

Feb. 25, 2021 Hundreds of German police carried out raids in 26 locations across Berlin and neighbouring Brandenburg state on Thursday following the banning and dissolution of a radical Islamist group in the capital, authorities said. Berlins Senate interior department said it had outlawed Jamaatu Berlin, "a young and very radical jihad Salafist" association, also known as Tauhid Berlin, saying the group was advocating terrorist attacks. Nineteen members of the association were the focus of Thu...

Share Nineteen members of the association were the focus of this mornings raids and the group had been under surveillance for two years, Berlin Interior Senator Andreas Geisel told a news conference. A Senate statement said the group had propagated a martyr cult, supported Islamic State ideology, rejected the German constitution and called for sharia as the sole legitimate law. (In the group), there are severe anti-Semites who are calling for the death of Jews, Berlin Interior Secretary Torsten...

2 Min Read BERLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of German police carried out raids in 26 locations across Berlin and neighbouring Brandenburg state on Thursday following the banning and dissolution of a radical Islamist group in the capital, authorities said. Berlin’s Senate interior department said it had outlawed Jama’atu Berlin, “a young and very radical jihad Salafist” association, also known as Tauhid Berlin, saying the group was advocating terrorist attacks. Nineteen members of the associa...

Berlin Police Called Out to Antifa Stronghold over 700 Times in 2020 21 Feb 2021 Police in the German capital of Berlin were called out to the area around the Antifa stronghold of Rigaer 94 a total of 717 times in 2020 to deal with incidents ranging from violence to threats and property damage. Police were called out to the building, which has been partially illegally occupied for years by far-left Antifa militants, to deal with hundreds of different offences, according to a Berlin senate resp...

Rigaer 94: warnings of "day X" ahead of fire inspection Court-sanctioned fire safety checks are due at one of Berlins last squat houses. Backlash - possibly requiring a large police presence - is expected. Artikel anhören Photo: dpa/Wolfgang KummThe occupied Friedrichshain property is one of the last of its kind in a once widespread leftwing Berlin tradition. Friedrichshain - After a number of court decisions in favour of the owner of Rigaer Straße 94, which is home to a communal living proj...