German police arrest two Nusra-affiliated suspects
Police in Germany have arrested two suspects over alleged links to the Takfiri al-Nusra Front terrorist group following large-scale raids across the country’s west.
The German federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Wednesday that the two had been apprehended in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where police had been conducting searches.
The suspects had allegedly been collecting donations and arranging “aid convoys” to deliver food, medicine, and medical equipment to the Takfiri group in Syria for several years, the statement said.
“Ambulance vehicles, medical devices, medicines, and foodstuffs have been delivered to Syria,” disguised as aid material under campaign called “Medicine of Heart” and “Medicine without Borders,” it added.
A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said the investigations were still going on and refused to disclose further details about the suspects, including their names, gender, or nationalities.
Similar searches are also said to have been conducted in Britain.
Al-Nusra Front has recently renamed itself Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and claimed to have broken ranks with al-Qaeda, although the moves are widely believed to have been mere decoy tactics.
The Wednesday arrests come as part of a crackdown by the German government on terrorist networks in the wake of a series of terror attacks in the European country since mid-last year.
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