Germany bans Ansaar group over terrorism financing suspicions

FILE PHOTO: German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer attends a news conference on politically motived crimes in Germany, in Berlin, Germany May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/Pool

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany said on Wednesday it was banning Ansaar International, an organisation which Berlin says has financed terrorism around the world, and police raided affiliates of the group.

"If you want to fight terror you have to dry up its sources of funding," Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Twitter.