Overview
- Police in Saxony arrested two Iraqi men in Chemnitz and Leipzig under warrants from the Higher Regional Court in Dresden.
- A third Iraqi suspect, age 26, was arrested in Plauen in March after officers searched his home.
- Prosecutors say the men served as Islamic State fighters between 2014 and 2017 and received monthly pay for that service.
- Searches recovered ten phones, two laptops, two tablets and other storage media that specialists are now examining.
- All three are in pretrial detention while the state prosecutor and the Saxony criminal police develop charges of membership in a terrorist organization abroad.