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Swiss police raid mosque, arrest imam over ‘call to kill muslims’

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8 years ago

November 3, 2016

Swiss police raid mosque, arrest imam over ‘call to kill muslims’

The An’Nur mosque in the city of Winterthur, Switzerland was raided on Wednesday following reports that on October 21 its imam called at a sermon to kill Muslims refusing to participate in communal prayer.

According to Zurich’s public prosecutor’s office in a statement police raided a mosque which was previously suspected of involvement in radicalizing young Muslims arresting our people, including the mosque’s imam.

The statement further revealed that the four men aged 23 to 25, were present at the mosque at the time of the raid, and are believed to have violated Switzerland’s immigration law.

The police also searched the mosque and the houses of the men arrested as they are expected to face criminal proceedings.

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