Yesterday morning, an operation was conducted on Al-Nusra gang members in Germany’s Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg states. Police detained Syrian national gang members Mustafa K., Abdullah K., Sultan K. and Ahmed K., who were later arrested on charges of “membership to a foreign terrorist organization”.
The gang members are reported to have participated in the attacks and massacres in Serêkaniyê, Rojava in November 2012. They faced a judge today, and one of the arrestees Sultan K. has an interesting profile. Sultan K. participated in attacks on Kurdish civilians in Serêkaniyê and fought against YPG forces, and she travelled to Germany two years ago from Turkey.
According to newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, Sultan K.’s appeal for asylum was accepted some time after she arrived in Germany. After Sultan K. gained asylum, she brought her two brothers into Germany. Reports say the police noticed Sultan K. when she shared ISIS and Al Nusra propaganda material on her social media accounts, and an investigation was launched.
44 year old Sultan K. is assumed to be the leader of the gang members. She was living in a luxury house with her family in Hamburg, Lower Saxony up to the operation yesterday.