BERLIN - German authorities raided a mosque, an Islamic community centre and radical Islamists' flats in cities across Germany on Tuesday on suspicion of having connections to militants in Syria.
The suspects, belonging to the ultra-conservative Salafist movement, are aged between 23 and 36 and police believe they were planning a violent attack although they made no arrests.
"We will not stand by and watch as the terrorist Islamic State death squads in Syria and Iraq get support from Germany," Joachim Herrmann, interior minister for the southern state of Bavaria, told reporters after detailing the raids.