German police carried out raids on suspected Islamist militants across the country early Tuesday, over allegations they were plotting a violent attack, Berlin prosecutors said.
Police and the public prosecutor's office raided 16 locations throughout northern Germany on Wednesday in order to target a suspected criminal organization with terrorist links.
On Tuesday morning, officers in three German states raided properties belonging to “Osmanen Germania” - a Turkish nationalist biker gang with suspected links to Turkey’s President.
A major deployment of customs and police officers took place on Tuesday morning in North Rhine-Westphalia against organized crime involving illegal work, according to media reports.
The G20 in Hamburg was marked by violent clashes between demonstrators and police in several parts of the city. On Tuesday morning police raided properties across the country as part of their investigation into the rioting.
After raids which took place in 13 German states on Wednesday and Thursday in an investigation into an illegal download portal, authorities have blocked usenetrevolution.info - a platform that is believed to have caused millions of euros in losses.
German police searched apartments and business premises in Rostock, Schwerin and the surrounding area on Monday on suspicion that people were involved in the preparation of an act of terrorism.
German police Wednesday made two arrests, seized guns and shot dead a Doberman attack dog in coordinated raids against the far-right "Reichsbürger" or "Citizens of the Reich" movement, they said.
A man in a small north German town got the shock of his life on Friday morning when special forces stormed his apartment. But their suspicion he was planning a terror attack was a little misplaced.
German police on Tuesday raided 200 sites across ten states in a probe against an Islamist group suspected of propagating hate and inciting 140 youths to fight alongside jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
Police forces in five German states carried out raids on Tuesday morning with the aim of tackling the financing of terror groups, police in Thuringia have reported.
Police searched two apartments in Berlin on Thursday while investigating a suspected planned terrorist attack. In North Rhine-Westphalia a man was also arrested on terror charges.
After Bremen Muslims said that raids and heightened police presence over a terror alert had made them feel excluded from society, a mosque raided by the authorities announced plans to sue over the search.
Police raided biker group Satudarah's clubhouses and the homes of members across Germany on Tuesday after Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere banned the group.
