“Anyone who supports terrorism will not be safe in Germany,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said.
“Regardless of what guise its supporters appear in, they will not find a place of refuge in our country.”
The three associations banned are the German Lebanese Family, Humans for Humans and Give Peace.
They were accused of collecting funds for Hezbollah under the guise of humanitarian goals in Germany, and ultimately promoting attacks on Israel.
The Interior Ministry said the groups were suspected of raising funds for families of killed Hezbollah fighters.
A report this month by Berlin’s intelligence services said Hezbollah was not present in Germany under its true name but had supporters who gathered donations and took part in annual demonstrations.
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Germany bans Muslim group over alleged terror donations
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Germany Bans Islamic NGO After Accusations of Terrorism Funding
7 May 2021
Germany has banned the Islamic NGO Ansaar International after it was accused of sending money to terrorist groups in Syria and Somalia.
The ban comes as police carried out raids on the association in ten different German states on Wednesday, searching and seizing objects in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, and Hesse.
According to a report from the German newspaper
Die Welt, the Interior Ministry has claimed that the NGO, founded in 2012, was covertly raising money for the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia, the Al-Nusra Front in Syria, and Hamas in Palestine, while claiming to support charitable causes.