German police have launched a nationwide crackdown on a group of radical Islamists known as Salafists.

Officers raided 70 properties in Berlin, Cologne and other cities.

There are some four thousand Salafists in Germany. They adhere to a hardline interpretation of Sunni Islam.

German authorities believe one Salafist group wanted to establish an Islamic caliphate under Sharia.

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