(Wien) Police in Austria carried out mass raids across the country targeting
primarily Mosques serving Balkan Muslims (Read that as former Yugoslavia) in a
bid to break the network of a preacher suspected of brainwashing teenagers to
fight for ISIS. 14 people have been arrested after the huge anti-terror raids
which took place across Graz and in the capital Vienna.
The raids focused on the network of Ebu Tejma a Muslim
preacher from Bosnia who was jailed for 20 years last July in Graz for
recruiting young fighters to the Islamic State group. Tejma is behind the
"brainwashing" of dozens of people aged between 14 and 30 and
enlisted a number of them to fight for Isis in Syria. Tejma fled from Bosnia to
Vienna following the break-up of Yugoslavia and preached in various Austrian
and southern German cities, becoming a "key figure" in pushing Isis
propaganda, according to the prosecution.
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| Ebu Tejma |
Around 300 people have either left or
have been intercepted trying to leave Austria to fight in Syria, according to
the interior ministry. Around 40 have died there while some 90 have come back.
The Police have stated that the raids were not connected to
last week's arrest of a suspected 17-year-old Islamist extremist in Vienna.
