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Germany police raid flats linked to Chechen investigation | |
(about 20 hours later) | |
Police raided apartments across Germany on Tuesday as part of an investigation into Islamist terrorism. | |
Fourteen asylum seekers from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya are at the centre of the probe. | |
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. |
Those being investigated are aged between 21 and 31, police say. | |
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. |
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