German Police Arrest Three Asylum Seekers Believed To Be Isis Terrorist

GERMAN Officers from Federal Office of Criminal Investigations (BKA) arrested three men at refugee homes in the states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, while seizing mobile telephones, hard drives and other documentation.

The GSG9, a special anti-terror unit, were also involved in the operation. Around 200 officers from local and national units were involved in the various raids.

The arrested men are asylum seekers from Syria aged between 17 and 26 who are suspected of working for Isis.

Investigators claim they came to Germany "to carry out instructions already given to them or to wait for further orders."

The 17-year-old is believed to have been trained by Isis in their unofficial capital in Raqqa in eastern Syria in the use of explosives and fire arms, DPA has learned.

He is then said to have travelled to through Turkey and Greece in mid-November 2015 with the other two men on the way to Germany, after being given thousands of US dollars in cash and mobile phones equipped with communications devices.

Investigators have reportedly been observing the men for a period of weeks, while also listening in on phone conversations after receiving a tip off from Germany’s domestic intelligence service.

Over a seven-day period in July, three asylum seekers perpetrated bloody attacks in southern Germany, which led to the death of one victim and dozens more being injured.

While one of the incidents is not thought to have had a political motive behind it, the other two have been linked to Isis.

In August, police in Rhineland-Palatinate arrested a 24-year-old Syrian refugee on a tip off from an imprisoned asylum seeker. However, after not finding any evidence that he was planning an attack, the man was released.

Die Welt reports that police have received tip offs against around 400 refugees, but that the majority of these have not been found to have substance. In 60 cases, investigations are ongoing.