The raids took place in 12 homes and hostels for refugees and asylum seekers.
In Germany on the morning of Tuesday, October 25, hosted a large-scale anti-terrorist operation: heavily armed police officers raided 12 locations across the country.
The German authorities claim that the aim of the operation was to identify suspected of financing extremist groups.
The raids took place in 12 homes and hostels for refugees and asylum seekers in Thuringia, Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Bavaria.
The investigation began in 2015 after the arrest of 28-year-old Russian citizen of Chechen origin. According to investigators, he was planning to join Syria to the terrorist organization Islamic state, said the Russian service of DW.
The result of the antiterrorist operation detained 13 citizens of Russia: 10 men and three women. All of them – the refugees from Chechnya.
