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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 Jama'atu Berlin following a series of dawn raids. Berlin's Senate has announced on Twitter that it has banned the "jihadist-Salafist association Jama'atu Berlin," also known as Tauhid Berlin. The tweet Thursday said police in Berlin and Brandenburg had carried out early-morning searches of properties belonging to the group's members. A spokesman cited by the German press agency dpa said aro...

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. 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 association were the focus of Thursday's raids and the group had been under surveillance for two years, Berlin Interior Senator And...

Share Nineteen members of the association were the focus of this morning's 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 Akmann said in a statement. Akmann told the news conference he did not know if any arrests wer...

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 association were the focus of Thursday’s raids and the group had been under surveillance for two years, B...