A sixth suspected member of Hamas has been arrested in Germany accused of being a part of a plot to assault Jewish targets.
Lebanese-born Mahmoud Z was detained on a practice in northern Germany on Thursday morning after crossing the border from Denmark.
Police alleged that he took possession of an computerized rifle, eight pistols and 600 items of ammunition in August.
A press release by the federal prosecutor mentioned he was given the weapons within the central German metropolis of Hesse by one other member of the group named Borhan El-Ok.
El-Ok was arrested on Tuesday evening close to the Czech border.
It is alleged that following the change, Mahmoud Z then introduced the weapons to Berlin and handed them to a different alleged Hamas member referred to as Wael FM.
Wael FM was arrested with the gadgets on 1 October, together with two different males named Adeb Al G and Ahmad I.
The lads, whose full names haven’t been launched because of 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 because the 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.
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 boys and mentioned the allegations towards it have been “baseless”.
One other alleged member of the plot, 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.
In February, 4 suspected Hamas members went on trial in Berlin, accused of plotting assaults on Jewish websites in Europe
