Searches in Dortmund: NRW bans "Islamic cultural association Nuralislam"

With a raid in Dortmund, the police pushed through a ban on the association "Islamischer Kulturverein Nuralislam", which was classified as Islamist.

A police spokeswoman said there was an operation on Thursday at a mosque and at the apartments of officials of the association.

Here is a large part of the activity of the banned association.

The spokeswoman for the Dortmund police explained that it was about confiscating the association's assets and securing data carriers.

The Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia had banned the association.

The association is directed against the constitutional order and the idea of ​​international understanding, according to the announcement by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Federal Gazette.

The Ministry of the Interior said on Thursday that the association would be classified as Islamist.

The North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) wants to comment on the ban on the association and related searches on Thursday morning in Düsseldorf.