BERLIN — Authorities in northern Germany ban an organization they say is a “hot spot” for Islamic extremists and search a mosque that the group runs.
The state interior ministry in Lower Saxony on Tuesday announces a ban on the “German-speaking Islam Group Hildesheim,” known by its German acronym DIK.
The group, based in the city of Hildesheim, is known as a center for ultra-conservative Muslims known as Salafists, and the mosque had been raided last year. Apartments also are searched Tuesday.
Police guard outside the Islamic Society of Hildesheim (DIK) mosque after a raid in Hildesheim, Germany, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (Holger Hollemann/dpa via AP)
News agency dpa quotes Interior Minister Boris Pistorius as saying: “With the ban on the group, a hot spot of the radical Salafist scene in Germany has been dismantled.”
Authorities suspect that Muslims were radicalized in the organization and motivated to take part in jihad.
— AP
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