Leaked documents containing names, birth dates and phone numbers of ISIS members are very likely to be genuine, German federal police said on Thursday.
German federal police spokesman Markus Koths said there was "a very high probability" that documents reported by German media as identifying German terrorists were genuine.
"The Federal Criminal Office has knowledge of this type of document of the so-called ISIS" said police spokesman Markus Koths, referring to ISIS registration forms reported on by Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcasters NDR and WDR.
"We assume that there is a very high probability that they are genuine documents," Koths said in a short statement. "We are therefore taking them into account as part of our law enforcement and security measures."
Koths declined to give details about how many documents his office has access to or their contents, and stressed that he was not commenting on the authenticity of specific documents obtained by German or other media.
The information, which could help track down current and former ISIS fighters, was included in forms which new recruits had to fill out, German and British media reported.
British broadcaster Sky News said it had shared with British security services documents with the identities of some 22,000 ISIS group members.
The documents contain details like names, dates of birth and phone numbers for people from 51 countries including from Britain, northern Europe, the Middle East, north Africa, the United States and Canada.
source : abna24
