Police in Germany have arrested a suspected Hamas member who allegedly obtained weapons and ammunition to assault Jewish targets.
Lebanese-born Borhan El-Ok was picked up on the motorway after crossing into Germany from the Czech Republic on Tuesday evening.
In an announcement, the German federal prosecutor’s workplace alleged in August he had procured an computerized rifle, eight Glock pistols and greater than 600 items of ammunition in Germany.
It is claimed the weapons have been then handed to Wael FM, one other suspected member of the Palestinian armed group Hamas, in Berlin.
Wael FM was arrested with the objects on 1 October together with two different males named as Adeb Al G and Ahmad I.
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Police officer – file picture. Pic: iStock
The lads, whose full names haven’t been launched attributable to German privateness legal guidelines, have been charged with making ready a critical act of violence endangering the German state and being members of a overseas terrorist organisation.
Authorities imagine that the group had been gathering provides for the reason that summer time.
“The weapons were intended for use by Hamas in assassination attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany,” the federal prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in an announcement on the time.
A supply instructed that the primary three males have been detained after they met for the weapons handover.
The arrests got here a day earlier than Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Hamas – which is taken into account a terrorist organisation by the EU – beforehand denied any connection to the lads and mentioned the allegations towards it have been “baseless”.
One other alleged member of the group, Mohammed A, was arrested on 3 November in London on the request of German police.
He is accused of taking 5 handguns and ammunition from Abed Al G and transporting them to Vienna the place they have been saved.
This morning Danish Police searched premises linked to Borhan El-Ok and one other suspect in and round Copenhagen following Mr El-Ok’s arrest on Tuesday.
He was attributable to seem earlier than a decide at this time.
In February, 4 suspected Hamas members went on trial in Berlin accused of plotting assaults on Jewish websites in Europe.
