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Germany Raids Dozens of Homes in BKA-Led Probe Into Online Islamist Propaganda

The crackdown targets youth-driven sharing of nasheeds repurposed to carry extremist messaging.

Overview

  • Federal investigators executed more than 50 search warrants across 12 German states with coordinated measures in Austria and Switzerland.
  • Berlin officers searched 17 apartments in early-morning operations, seizing phones, laptops, cameras and storage media with 220 personnel deployed.
  • Brandenburg police searched three addresses in the districts of Spree-Neiße and Ostprignitz-Ruppin and reported no arrests.
  • One person in Berlin was taken into custody on an unrelated preexisting warrant, and authorities have not announced new arrests tied to the searches.
  • Bavaria’s state criminal police said some allegations relate to the Islamic State, naming a 47-year-old suspect, as investigators begin forensic analysis of the confiscated devices.