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Germans arrest terrorist suspect wanted by Czechs

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German police arrest suspected member of North Caucasian terrorism group Jamaat Shariat who will be deported to Czech Republic.

Jamaat Shariat members in the North Caucasus region are seen in a file photo foto: © archiveČeská pozice

Police in in Berlin have arrested a 35-year-old Russian national suspected of involvement with the Islamist terrorist organization Jamaat Shariat, which seeks to establish an Islamic state in Russia’s North Caucasus region. The man will be deported to the Czech Republic along with another suspect who was arrested June 3.

The arrests follow on an incident in May, when Czech Police seized arms and arrested eight people suspected of assisting Jamaat Shariat. “Given that the center of the case is in the Czech Republic, the handover of both suspects to the Czech authorities can be expected soon,” a spokesman for the public prosecution service in Berlin said Friday.

According to German police, the suspect carried false documents between the Czech Republic and Germany. These documents were used by new recruits for travel or were sold, and the proceeds from the sales were used to buy weapons and explosives for terrorist attacks in Chechnya and Dagestan. ‘Given that the center of the case is in the Czech Republic, the handover of both suspects to the Czech authorities can be expected soon.’

Seven of the people arrrested in May have been charged with forging documents. Two of them are reportedly Bulgarian nationals, though at the time of the arrest there was speculation that their Bulgarian documents might be forged. This has not been confirmed by police. “There is no additional information about the case that we’re able to make public at this point,” Pavel Hanták, the spokesman for the ÚOOZ, the Czech Police’s unit for combating organized crime, told Czech Position.

The other suspects arrested in May are Russian and Moldovan citizens. One Chechen suspect was charged with money forgery and illegal possession of arms including machine guns and grenades.

According to the ÚOOZ, the forged ID documents seized in Prague were very high quality. The suspects were either in the Czech Republic illegally, or entered the country illegally and applied for asylum status. ÚOOZ detectives reportedly started their investigation in 2008. It is the first case to involve arrests on terrorism charges in the Czech Republic.

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