The black Banner with the commitment to Allah in a white font, many Swiss Islamists moved into the spell. One of them is said to have desired, that IS-Woe flag via Zurich. This desire – as anti-terror specialists of the Federal faith – a young Swiss-expressed, aware of the terrorist organization, the Islamic state from the inside. According to information from the Tamedia-Recherchedesks Vedad*, the only condemned male Syria-returnees from Winterthur to have this hope in the clandestine talks given expression.

Eleven house searches

for this reason, and because of other suspicions, it is early Tuesday morning a staff-intensive RAID against him and other alleged terrorist helpers. The ratios of the largest in the Swiss action against the IS: around one hundred police officers in the use of eleven of the Accused, eleven of the raided 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.

the reason is cases of 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.

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.

New spy techniques

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 sentenced to a custodial sentence. The today 21-Year-old got eleven months conditionally, with a trial period of one year. During this ongoing Phase, it must notify Vedad regularly at the violence the protection of the police of the Canton of Zurich. Secretly, however, the KV has made-drop-out – so-the accusation – still advertising for the IS. For Vedad and all other accused persons the presumption of innocence applies.

to observe After the closure of the Only mosque, it has become more difficult, suspected IS sympathisers.

In its media release, the spring is grateful to the leading office of the attorney General the three involved in the cantonal police corps, 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 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”.

Meet in private rooms

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. Later the meeting place was moved. This shows that, after the closure of the has become a To Just-a-mosque, more difficult to observe suspected IS sympathisers. Often conspiratorial Meetings are now in private rooms. 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.

Under Vedads well-Known and friends of the former coordinator of the Only mosque and one of the co-founder of the MMA-Sunnah-training area. there were The two men had accused the U.S. attorney’s office a few days ago because of the IS-support and participation.

contact with Abu Walaa?

there is Some evidence also that at least one of Vedads colleagues with the IS-cell of the Iraqi-hate preacher Ahmad Abdullah stood alias Abu Walaa in contact. The alleged head of Germany of the IS and preacher from Hildesheim, and four co-defendants currently on trial at the higher regional court of Celle. The main accusation is fighters the recruitment of IS. Several members of the To’Only a group of young people had visited Abu Walaa in Hildesheim. In addition, several young men were from the Region of Biel in contact with the alleged IS-the head of Germany, or had him transferred money.

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. He was taken in accordance with the cantonal youth advocacy in police custody.

*the Name has been changed

Created: 29.10.2019, 21:44 Uhr