German Police Arrest Three Men ’Sent by Daesh to Carry out Terror Attacks’
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German police arrested three Syrian men suspected of being deployed by Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] to carry out new terror attacks in Europe.
Prosecutors said the three suspects were dispatched to Germany last year "either to carry out a mission that they had been informed about or to wait for further instructions".
"Concrete missions or orders have not yet been found in the course of investigations carried out so far," a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor said.
Thomas de Maiziere, the German interior minister, said the men could be part of a "sleeper cell" linked to the terrorists who carried out the Paris attacks in November.
He said the suspects were carrying fake documents "from the same workshop in Syria" and were believed to have been sent to Europe by the same smuggling network as militants that killed 130 people in the French capital.
The arrests were made during a series of dawn raids involving 200 officers in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, with police searching refugee centers in Großhansdorf, Ahrensburg and Reinfeld.
The trio, carrying false passports, left Syria in October 2015 - around the same time as at last two of the Paris suicide bombers who crossed to the island of Leros.
They reached Germany in November and have received four-figure payments in US dollars from Daesh, as well as mobile phones with pre-installed communication apps.
Germany has been targeted in a spate of recent attacks, including three carried out by asylum seekers, of which two were claimed by Daesh.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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