The authorities of Germany and Switzerland have announced the arrest of 4 people suspected of belonging to the ISIS organization as part of a joint operation, prosecutors of the two countries said today.

Swiss prosecutors said in a statement that 3 people were arrested on Monday evening in Zurich, St. Gallen and Lucerne, noting that 7 raids were carried out. Those arrested, whose identity has not been released, are suspected of “participating in or supporting a banned terrorist organization,” according to Swiss authorities.

At the same time, according to the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office, a man was arrested in Römerberg in western Germany. The agency said in a statement that the suspect “is suspected of being involved in violent and dangerous acts that threaten state security and of belonging to a terrorist group abroad.” It is also suspected that he briefly went to Syria in September 2020 and then defected from Germany to ISIS no later than April 2021 and carried out large-scale propaganda activities for this organization.