Germany Weapons for Hamas attacks? Another suspect arrested
Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor's Office has arrested another suspect in connection with the investigation into suspected members and weapons procurers of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
13.11.2025, 15:34
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The man was apprehended on Thursday by officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police on a train from Denmark to Flensburg (Schleswig-Holstein), according to the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, Germany's highest prosecuting authority.
They accuse him of being involved in the procurement of weapons for Hamas. He is said to have accepted them from a suspected Hamas member in the federal state of Hesse and brought them to another suspected Hamas member in Berlin. The two accomplices are already in custody - one since the beginning of October, the other since Wednesday.
The man who has now been provisionally arrested on the train is to be brought before the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice on Friday, who will decide whether to issue an arrest warrant and remand him in custody. Among other things, he is accused of violating the Weapons Act.
Planned attacks on Jewish targets?
It was only on Tuesday evening that officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police arrested a suspected member of Hamas after he entered the country from the Czech Republic. The man is said to have procured weapons from Germany that were presumably intended to be used for assassination attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany and Europe.
The Danish police had also searched the premises of the arrested man and another suspect in Copenhagen and the surrounding area, according to a statement from the federal prosecutor's office.
Earlier arrests in Berlin and London
The two most recent arrests are connected to those of three suspected Hamas members at the beginning of October. As foreign operatives of the organization, they are said to have procured an assault rifle, pistols and ammunition from Germany, among other things. However, there was probably no concrete plan for the attack. The three men were arrested in Berlin on October 1 and have all been in custody since then.
In Vienna, a weapons cache was recently uncovered in the same investigation. According to Austria's constitutional protection authority DSN, five handguns and ten magazines were seized. A man was also arrested in London who, according to the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, is said to have transported the weapons to Vienna as a member of Hamas and stored them there. He is to be transferred to Germany.
