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Berlin / Stuttgart (dpa) - In connection with the ban on the Salafist association Ansaar International, twelve objects were searched in Baden-Württemberg. As the Stuttgart Interior Ministry announced, the prohibition orders were handed out to ten members and backers of the association in all four administrative districts under the direction of the State Criminal Police Office on Wednesday morning. A total of 130 police officers were on duty. «We take all means of the rule of law against Islamists. Anyone who supports Islamists - whether at home or abroad - gets to feel the full severity of the law, ”said Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU). "We have a very clear zero tolerance strategy."
Those who support Hamas under the guise of humanitarian aid are not only disregarding our constitution, said Strobl.
In this way, the many aid organizations that provide help after crises, conflicts or natural disasters under difficult conditions and have committed themselves to neutrality would also be discredited.
"The rule of law must react to this."
The searches were also in Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein at the same time.
"We are sending a clear signal to everyone who is endangering our free democratic basic order," said Strobl.
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Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) had previously banned the Salafist association Ansaar International and all offshoots of the Islamist association.
The reason for this was that the Interior Ministry said that Ansaar had collected donations with the intention of passing them on to terrorist groups abroad, in particular to the Al-Nusra Front in Syria, the Palestinian Hamas and Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Some of the support directly benefits these associations.
Aid projects are sometimes supported, "which, however, are directly part of the sphere of activity of the respective terrorist organization".
The network of associations that have now been banned also includes the Änis Ben-Hatira Foundation named after the German-Tunisian football player, the Somali Committee for Information and Advice in Darmstadt and the Surrounding Area, the women's rights association ANS.Justice, "Ummashop" and Helpstore Secondhand UG as well as Better World Appeal.
The Interior Ministry found that donors had been defrauded by the untrue claim that the funds were used exclusively for humanitarian purposes.
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