Dozens of raids Germany after fire bombings

essen - German police Thursday at thirty locations in eleven cities search of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia made in connection with an attack with a fire bomb at a Turkish café in Essen in November. Seventeen suspects were arrested, all with a Kurdish background.

Police raided addresses at include Cologne, Dortmund, Bochum, Duisburg and Essen.

In early November strangers tossed from a group firebombs through the window of the cafe. Thus became a man slightly injured. Two days, three suspects were arrested later.

The investigation revealed that the attack may have had a political background and that was the state in question. Sympathizers of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and Turkish nationalists, who are in Turkey clash, fighting on German soil their political disagreements.