Raid on mosque in Dortmund, Germany: “Hotbed of Islamism”

Large police operation in the Dortmund city area. The North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior has banned an Islamic cultural association. Now police officers are enforcing the ban with a raid. Heavily armed, they searched a mosque and several flats in the Nordstadt on Thursday morning ( March 10).

The association “Islamischer Kulturverein Nuralislam” is now considered anti-constitutional. This was announced by the state ministry of the interior of North Rhine-Westphalia. The association is against the constitutional order and the idea of international understanding, according to the announcement by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Minister of the Interior Herbert Reul ( Christian Democratic Union, CDU) plans to comment on the ban and the raid on Thursday.

A police spokeswoman told a German press agency (DPA) that there had been a police raid in Dortmund on Thursday at a mosque and at the homes of officials of the association. This is where a large part of the banned association’s activities take place. The aim was to seize the association’s assets and to secure data carriers.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the association would be dissolved with immediate effect. Moreover, no substitute organisations may be formed and no other activities may be carried out. Several websites will also be banned, according to the ministry’s announcement.
According to DPA, several police officers took part in the raid – dogs were also used. The building is a house with several floors.

Now the North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of the Interior, Herbert Reul ( Christian Democratic Union, CDU), has also commented on the raid in Dortmund’s Nordstadt district. “What we closed today was a hotbed of Islamism,” said Reul. About 150 police officers had been on duty in the early morning, he said. Mobile phones, laptops, data storage devices, a car and account balances amounting to 54,000 euros had been confiscated.

Officials of the mosque association were representatives of the radical Salafist ideology and were ideologically close to the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS), explained the North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister. The association had also been a recruitment centre for the IS-affiliated Abu Walaa network, which had organised the departure of at least seven young men to the IS combat zones.

https://www.ruhr24.de/dortmund/dortmund-razzia-islamistisch-kulturverein-nuralislam-reul-polizeieinsatz-moschee-durchsuchung-news-91400833.html

2 thoughts on “Raid on mosque in Dortmund, Germany: “Hotbed of Islamism””

  1. Danke!! 2000 more to go!

    Too bad the Government has ruled that it is okie dokie to have the German Intelligence Agency spy on the AFD Political party at the behest of their incompetent rivals. Rather than find out where the significant portion of the 2015 “immigrant” group of 1.2 million who are violent jihadis are.

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