Syrian migrant who fought for radical jihadis arrested in refugee centre raid in Germany
A SYRIAN refugee who fought for a radical Jihadist group has been seized in a police swoop at a migrant home in Germany.
Yesterday’s arrest took place at an asylum home in the German city of Böblingen
It is reported that he led police to him after leaving an electronic device with data about his contacts with the Jabhat al-Nusra group - an Isis offshoot - aboard it.
The arrest of the 24-year-old unnamed man comes six days after special anti-terror GSG 9 police in the state of Schleswig-Holstein arrested three sleepers of Isis who infiltrated themselves into Germany among the tens of thousands of innocents fleeing war.
Yesterday’s arrest took place at an asylum home in Böblingen near Stuttgart.
Officers of the state criminal office seized him in the morning.
Local prosecutor Achim Brauneisen has forwarded intelligence on the case to the federal prosecutor, Germany's chief law enforcer, in Karlsruhe.
He is being held in custody on suspicion of being a member of a banned terror organisation while his electronic data device is examined by experts for more clues about his contacts and plans.
Officials said that he was a fighter with Jabhat al-Nusra
Officials said that they had no intelligence that he was plotting a concrete attack.
He arrived in Germany in September last year.
Officials said that he was a fighter with Jabhat al-Nusra.
The fear of terror and the changing nature of German society has eroded support for Angela Merkel
Two mobiles, a computer and filled notebooks were seized in the raid.
Last week the interior minister in Germany said there are at least 520 suspected Islamic radicals among the 1.3 million refugees who have arrived in Germany since the beginning of 2015.
The fear of terror and the changing nature of German society has eroded support for Chancellor Angela Merkel who has been trounced in a series of elections recently by the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.