German prosecutors charge 7 men with planning terror attacks
The German Federal Prosecutor's Office announced today that it had filed charges against seven suspected members of a "jihadist" organization with links to the Islamic State (IS) Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, and of planning attacks.
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According to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Karlsruhe (south-west), the accused are five Tajik citizens and two nationals of Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.
The suspects lived in Ukraine and shortly after the Russian invasion in February 2022, they moved to Germany, where, according to the investigators' reconstruction, they founded an extremist group.
The group allegedly aimed to carry out attacks like those perpetrated by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in Germany or other European countries, maintaining contacts with members of ISIS-K and another individual based in the Netherlands, where he was mentioned in a legal proceeding.
The seven men researched potential targets in Germany and sought to obtain funding and weapons, although they did not yet have a concrete plan to carry out an attack.
Six of those involved are also suspected of having raised funds and transferred several thousand euros to IS leaders abroad.
The Public Prosecutor's Office indictment includes seven crimes of creating a domestic terrorist organisation and six crimes of supporting a foreign terrorist organisation.
The men were arrested in July 2023 and have been in pre-trial detention ever since.
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