ISIS suspects arrested in Germany and Switzerland

In a joint operation, German and Swiss authorities have arrested four people suspected of belonging to ISIS, according to prosecutors in the two countries yesterday. In Switzerland, three people were arrested on Monday evening in Zurich, St. Gallen and Lucerne, Swiss prosecutors said in a statement, noting that there were seven raids. Those arrested, whose identity has not been released, are suspected of “participating in or supporting a banned terrorist organization,” according to Swiss authorities. At the same time, according to the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office, a man was arrested in Römerberg in western Germany. The ministry said in a statement that the arrested Alim N. He is suspected of involvement in the commission of a violent and dangerous act that threatens state security, and of belonging to a terrorist group abroad. It is also suspected that he briefly traveled to Syria in September 2020 and then crossed from Germany to Dai no later than April 2021 and carried out extensive propaganda activities in favor of the organization.” “His task is mainly to translate official texts, video or audio messages of the organization from Arabic into German and distribute them through various channels of the Telegram application in the German-speaking region,” the prosecution said in a statement. “ISIS views these actions as direct participation in violent jihad,” she added. The suspect also “probably went through a phone interview with ISIS officials in late fall 2021” to “verify its veracity” before joining “areas where ISIS operates.”