Combating terrorism: Coordinated arrests and searches in Switzerland and in Germany
Bern, 14.6.2022 - The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG), the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office in Winterthur and the Office of the Federal Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice in Germany yesterday evening arrested several suspects and searched houses in a joint operation conducted simultaneously in the cantons of Zurich, St. Gallen and Lucerne in Switzerland and in Germany. The participant authorities are conducting criminal proceedings against four suspects on suspicion of participating in or supporting the banned terrorist organisation "Islamic state". In Switzerland three persons were arrested and seven searches were carried out during the coordinated operation; in Germany there was one arrest and one search.