The AR existed until the beginning of 2014. They wanted to overthrow the Syrian regime and carried out bomb attacks. A. is said to have ordered an attack on a building by the Syrian security forces in 2013. At IS he then joined a unit that kidnapped and executed opposing fighters. As a so-called Emir, he also controlled a checkpoint.
A.’s apartment was searched in the Hessian state capital, as well as the apartments of other, non-suspicious people in two other places, as the federal prosecutor’s office further announced. A. is strongly suspected of membership in a terrorist organization abroad in two cases. He is now in custody.
