Police arrest IS sympathizers – 26-year-old Syrian in custody | EUROtoday

Police arrested a 26-year-old Syrian within the Schweinfurt district of Lower Franconia on Sunday morning on suspicion of terrorist financing. The man is claimed to be a sympathizer of the terrorist group “Islamic State,” because the Lower Franconia police headquarters introduced on Monday along with the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office. The central workplace for combating extremism and terrorism positioned there’s investigating the person.

The suspect was arrested with out resistance

The man was introduced earlier than an investigating decide on Monday and has been in custody ever since. In addition to terrorist financing, he’s additionally accused of “instructing the commission of a serious crime that endangers the state.” Foreign safety authorities had been additionally concerned within the investigation, it was stated. These investigations solely started on the finish of final week. The man was arrested by a particular operations workforce with out resistance. Evidence was additionally seized.

The police and public prosecutor’s workplace emphasize of their assertion that there’s at the moment “no evidence of specific attack plans” or of particular threats posed by the suspect. The authorities are at the moment not offering any additional particulars because of ongoing investigations.

The Bavarian Interior Ministry stated there was “obviously no connection whatsoever” to the arrest of a 37-year-old suspect in Augsburg final week. “According to information from the security authorities, this is again a sympathizer of the ‘Islamic State’ and its propaganda,” stated Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU). There are at the moment no concrete hazard warnings for Christmas markets. “However, this second case within a few days underlines that the abstract risk situation remains high, particularly from Islamist terrorism.”