Refugees living in Germany are helping law enforcement authorities nab suspected criminals by crowdsourcing terror tips on social media sites, the Wall Street Journal reported, sometimes even finding suspects themselves.
In the latest instance, last month, German authorities sent out a public call for help in Arabic to search for Jaber al-Bakr, a 22-year-old Syrian suspected bombmaker who escaped a police manhunt after they found explosives at his residence — but hundreds of Syrians had already translated the wanted notice. Just two days later, a group of Syrian refugees who temporarily housed him tied him up for law enforcement officials and turned him in....
https://thinkprogress.org/refugees-germany-tips-451eb5006591#.lj8qw96uo

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