German police Wednesday launched a massive crackdown on a radical Islamist group suspected of trying to recruit German residents for jihad (holy war).
Prosecutors in the southern German city of Munich said in a statement that police had raided 16 locations, including homes, offices and cultural centers in Berlin, Leipzig, Bonn and three southern German towns.
The investigations targeted nine German citizens, most of them with immigrant backgrounds. They are suspected of attempting to "Islamize and radicalize" people for jihad by using literature, internet statements and seminars through an organization called "Multi Kultur Haus" in the southern German city of Ulm.
The suspects, aged 25 to 47, have not been detained, but they may be charged with incitement and forming a criminal group against constitutional order, prosecutors said.
Source:Xinhua
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