German police search for suspected organization in Christmas attacks


(MENAFN) In Berlin, German police searched more than 20 properties linked to an organization that ran a mosque visited by the Tunisian asylum seeker who killed 12 people in Christmas market in December.

In detail, about 450 officers were searching several apartments, two companies' premises and six prison cells connected to the organization.

Also, the police tweeted that the organization had now been banned, and they have searched 24 propertied and searches are still ongoing.

The federal prosecutor has said that Anis Amri, the Berlin attacker, visited a mosque run the organization on the day of the December attack.

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