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Germany’s public prosecutor has arrested four suspected members of a Syrian militia and one suspected member of the Syrian secret service, it said on Wednesday. The detained are suspected of killing and attempting to kill civilians in what amounts to crimes against humanity and war crimes. Four of them are also accused of torture. The four alleged militia members are said to have joined the “Free Palestine Movement” (FPM) group in Syria in 2011 at the latest, which controlled a neighbourhood in the capital Damascus on behalf of the Syrian regime, according to the statement from the federal pro…