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Raids on Hamas and Samidoun expanded
Search in Lingen in Lower Saxony. photo
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In the early hours of the morning, the police visited suspected supporters of Hamas and the Samidoun network. Possible evidence will be confiscated. Then the searches will be expanded.
There was previously talk of 16 properties in Berlin, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein. A property in Hamburg and further properties in Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein have now been added. A total of around 500 emergency services were involved. According to the ministry, further search measures were initiated based on the material found.
The focus was Berlin with 13 objects searched. Mobile phones, laptops, data carriers, posters, appeals for donations and documents were seized. On November 2nd, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) banned the activities of the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas and the Samidoun network in Germany. The German branch of the pro-Palestinian Samidoun was also dissolved.
“Our bans enable consistent intervention during demonstrations, consistent prosecution and consistent deletion of channels and pages on the Internet where terrorist propaganda is spread,” said Faeser. “It is completely clear to us: Islamists and anti-Semites cannot and must not feel safe anywhere here at any time.”