German police raided a mosque and eight apartments on Wednesday, in Hildesheim, South of Hanover.

"We will not put up with Salafist associations and their backers flouting our rules and bringing our rule of law into question and convincing young people that they want to join the so-called IS," Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Boris Pistorius said.

Hildesheim is the epicenter of a home-grown movement of German-speaking Islamists. German authorities are attempting to crackdown on radical Sal...