
In several countries of Europe last night and on Friday morning, the police and the special services held anti -Islamist raids. It is reported by the BBC.
In Paris and its environs, the French police detained 12 people. They are suspected of complicity with the terrorists AMedi Kulibali and the brothers Said and Sharif Kuashi. They could support the attackers, providing them with weapons or cars.
In Germany, more than 200 police officers conducted searches and arrests of suspected Islamists in Berlin. Among others, the leader of the group, allegedly about to attack Syria, was arrested. The 41-year-old man of Turkish origin is suspected of leading the "Islamic extremist organization, which included Turkey and Russia citizens from Chechnya and Dagestan," the police said. There is no data that the group planned attacks in Germany itself.
The Belgian police said that as a result of raids in several cities of the country, 13 people were arrested in Paris. Four Kalashnikov AK-47, four guns, as well as a police uniform, radio stations, fake documents, a large number of ammunition were found. The group prepared attacks on the police.
On the eve of the city of Vervier in the Belgian province of Liezh on the border with Germany, a shootout occurred. Two jihadists who returned from Syria were killed, one was wounded and detained. Police and civilians were not injured.
According to police, the group prepared a terrorist attack in Belgium. Previously, two suspects of Islamists were detained in the Brussels suburb of the Glorus. The country's authorities increased the level of terrorist threat to the third on a four -point scale.
On January 7, in Paris, the Islamist terrorists Said and Sharif Kuashi shot the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo . 10 editorial staff, as well as two police officers, were killed. The next day, another terrorist, Audi Kulibali, entered the shootout with law enforcement officers in Mongery. One police officer died.
On January 9, police blocked the Kuashi brothers in the printing house building in the city of Dammarten-An-Goel. At the same time, Kulibali captured the hostages in a Jewish store in the capital, threatening to kill them if law enforcement officers in Dammarten begin to storm. In the evening of the same day, the security forces simultaneously stormed both the printing house and the store. All three terrorists were killed. Kulibali, however, managed to kill four hostages . Thus, the total number of victims of terrorists was 17 people.
Millions of people in France and all over the world participated in the actions of the victims, against terror and for freedom of speech.