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07/09/2025July 9, 2025
One arrested in anti-terror raids in western Germany
One man has been detained on suspicion of trying to finance a planned Islamist with fraudulent commercial activities as police carried out searches of six properties in the state of on Wednesday, officials said.
They said the raids in the cities of Essen, Dortmund, and Soest were being conducted as part of a “comprehensive investigation into suspected organized commercial fraud.”
According to a joint statement from the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office and Essen police, the investigation had turned up evidence that money gained through commercial fraud was intended to go toward financing an Islamist terrorist attack.
Wednesday’s raids aimed to hinder any further planning of the suspected attack and its execution, as well as clarifying the circumstances surrounding it, the statement said.
The detainee, a 27-year-old man with Bosnian-Herzegovinian citizenship, was due to come before an investigating judge on Wednesday, officials said.
North Rhine-Westphalia is Germany’s most-populous state, with a population of some 18 million people.
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The continuing threat of Islamist terrorism in Germany is on focus on Wednesday as police carry out raids in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia aimed at preventing a suspected planned attack.
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