German police arrest two Salafist suspects in raid

BERLIN: German police said on Friday they had arrested two people following a raid on 12 homes and a mosque group linked to radical Islamic Salafists, shortly after Belgian police killed two men during similar raids against an Islamist group.
The arrests followed investigations which have been going on for several months into five Turkish citizens aged 31 to 44, who are suspected of ‘preparing a serious act of violence against the state in Syria’ and money laundering, police said. A police spokesman said the suspects were probably part of an extremist cell that had recruited fighters for Syria.
Martin Steltner at the public prosecutors’ office said the raids were unrelated to the Islamist militant attacks in Paris last week. (PTI)