early Tuesday morning, there has been a personnel-intensive crackdown against suspected supporters of the terrorist organization Islamic state. The ratios of the largest in the Swiss action against the IS: around 100 police officers in the use of, 11 Accusing, 11 searched apartments in the three cantons of Zurich, Bern, and Schaffhausen. Six of the accused are adults, five teenagers. For two of the arrested men, the Federal government has applied to bar remand.

imprisonment due to travel to the area of the IS

reason is the suspected violations of the Federal law on the prohibition of the groups al-Qaeda and Islamic state (IS). Three media releases on the case, it is not clear what they are accused of all the concrete and what kind of danger emanated from them. The Federal government mentioned advocacy, however, is that it is one of the two arrested a convicted person IS-returnees. Also for this purpose, there is no further information.

In the center of the months-long investigation state according to the information of the Tamedia-Recherchedesks the Swiss Syria-returnees Vedad*, who had traveled to the end of 2014 with its 15-year-old sister Esra* to the IS. After about a year, the siblings were returned in Switzerland.

The district court of Winterthur has Vedad – as well as Ezra – in February 2019, under the youth criminal law because of the trip to the territory of the terrorist organization and other offences against the IS-ban on sentenced to a custodial sentence. The today 21-Year-old got eleven months conditionally with a trial period of one year.

IS advertising, despite the sample time

During this ongoing trial period must report to Vedad regularly at the violence the protection of the police of the Canton of Zurich. Secretly, however, the KV has made Teaching drop-out – so-the accusation – still advertising for the IS. For Vedad and all other accused persons the presumption of innocence applies.

NDB took advantage of the technological opportunities provided to him by the new intelligence law.

In its media release, the lead Federal thanks to the advocacy of the three involved, the Canton police, the youth Prosecutor of Winterthur and Bern, as well as the Fedpol for the “valuable cooperation in this matter”. No mention of> the Federal intelligence service (NDB) remains the <strong.

The NDB has compiled key information on the activities of the accused together. He took advantage of the technological opportunities provided to him by the new intelligence law. Such monitoring measures, have to be, among other things, the Federal administrative court granted.

the focal point Winterthur

a long time ago, the Canton police had found out in Zurich, that members of the so-called youth group of the now-closed In-Only mosque in Winterthur, met secretly in a restaurant in a municipality on the border between the cantons of Zurich and Thurgau. Vedad was Read before his departure to Syria, both in the’Only mosque as well as in the Koran distribution action “!” and in the infamous IS-martial arts training MMA Sunnah in Winterthur, Switzerland has been actively. He knew many members of the youth group, but also some of the older extremists from the environment To’Only mosque.

The youth are also accused of violations of the arms act and violence.

Four of the young people Mitbeschuldigten come from Winterthur and the surrounding area. They are, according to the youth advocacy Winterthur between 15 and 17 years old. You will not be accused of only breach of the IS-ban, but also offences against the weapons act and violence. The fifth accused young people comes from the Canton of Bern.

The NDB was able to determine that the now full-year Vedad made after his return, more for the IS Propaganda, and other young people tried to generate enthusiasm for the extremist ideas of the terrorist organization. Here he is in his juvenile proceedings, had alleged that he had been, in spite of clear Instructions – never the IS in Syria and he does not think that the IS people for “Exaggerator in the Religion”. Psychiatrists who examined the young man, could never make an accurate picture of the Thinking and inner workings of the IS-returnee. You referred to him as a “black box”.

*the Name has been changed

Created: 29.10.2019, 13:43 PM