German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Thursday banned the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in the country, department spokesman Steve Alter said.
“Federal Minister Seehofer today banned the activities of the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah (the Party of God) in Germany. Police events are held in several regions in the morning hours. Even in times of crisis, a rule-of-law state is capable”, – Alter wrote on Twitter.
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Last December, the Bundestag called on the federal government to ban the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in Germany. Deputies explained the need for this by the fact that in Germany there are about a thousand supporters of the movement and the country is used by the organization as a place to shelter militants and a logistics center. Politicians also called for the government to stop drawing a line of demarcation between the political and paramilitary wing of the Lebanese movement.
In addition, the deputies insisted that the government, together with international partners, take measures to reduce the influence of Hezbollah in the Middle East, “especially in Syria”. At the same time, they asked to ban only the activities of the movement, but not the movement itself, since the existence of “social-organizational structures of Hezbollah in Germany” has not been established (there is no movement as a legal entity).