Security forces searched four properties in the western German city of Duisburg on Thursday morning in a raid on a local group accused of supporting the Palestinian militant organization Hamas. Ahead of the raid, the Interior Ministry in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia had officially banned the organization known as Palestine Solidarity Duisburg. “A red line was crossed,” said the state’s interior minister, Herbert Reul. “We have confiscated all the organization’s assets.” The raid targeted four properties belonging to the group’s leaders, including flats in several apartment blocks, accor…