German police on Thursday (March 2nd) arrested two Syrians for alleged offences in extremist groups active in Syria, including the execution of three dozen civilians, AFP reported.
A 35-year-old Syrian is a suspected member of al-Nusra Front (ANF), now calling itself Fatah al-Sham Front, and is accused of 36 counts of war crimes for participating in the mass killing of Syrian government employees in 2013, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
The other Syrian, aged 26, is allegedly a member of the same group, and is accused of managing one of its combat unit's funds, vehicles and weapons.
The men were detained by police from the western states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia who also searched their apartments.
German federal prosecutors have launched around a dozen investigations concerning alleged war crimes committed in Syria or Iraq, alongside dozens of cases of suspected membership of extremist groups.
