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Germany anti-terror raids: Chechen man held Germany police raid flats linked to Chechen investigation
(about 20 hours later)
Police in Germany have searched 13 homes in five states, arresting a Chechen man and questioning 13 others suspected of financing terrorism. Police raided apartments across Germany on Tuesday as part of an investigation into Islamist terrorism.
The man had been planning to join so-called Islamic State, according to police in the state of Thueringen. Fourteen asylum seekers from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya are at the centre of the probe.
All 14 are asylum seekers, police say on their website. But contrary to earlier reports police said no arrests had been made among the 11 men and three women.
Local media say a white powder was found in one of the flats, but police say they have found no evidence of a concrete threat of attack.Local media say a white powder was found in one of the flats, but police say they have found no evidence of a concrete threat of attack.
Police had been investigating the 28-year-old since last year. They say they are now also questioning 10 Chechen men and three women between the ages of 21 and 31. Those being investigated are aged between 21 and 31, police say.
The raids took place early in the morning in 12 flats and a shelter for asylum seekers in several towns in Thueringen, as well as in the states of Bavaria and Saxony, and in Hamburg and Dortmund. Most are suspected of financing terrorism and one 28-year-old man is suspected of planning to join so-called Islamic State jihadists in Syria, police said.
But they now say previous reports that he was arrested were wrong.
The raids took place early on Tuesday morning, with 12 flats and a shelter for asylum seekers searched in states around Germany, from Thuringia and Saxony in the east to Bavaria in the south, Hamburg in the north and North Rhine-Westphalia in the west.
The Russian region of Chechnya is home to a number of jihadist groups, including some aligned with Islamic State.
The raids come just weeks after a Syrian refugee was arrested because large amounts of explosives were found in his apartment.The raids come just weeks after a Syrian refugee was arrested because large amounts of explosives were found in his apartment.
The man was on the run for days, before being overwhelmed by other Syrian refugees, who handed him over to the police.The man was on the run for days, before being overwhelmed by other Syrian refugees, who handed him over to the police.
The suspect had reportedly been planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport, but later killed himself in his prison cell in Leipzig.The suspect had reportedly been planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport, but later killed himself in his prison cell in Leipzig.