Austria’s domestic intelligence service has uncovered a weapons cache in Vienna that is believed to be linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas for use in “possible terrorist attacks in Europe,” the government said Thursday.
A 39-year-old unidentified British citizen allegedly “having close ties to the weapons cache” was arrested in London on Monday, the interior ministry statement said.
“According to the current state of the investigation, Israeli or Jewish institutions in Europe were likely to be the targets of these attacks,” it added.
The weapons cache and the suspect were part of an internationally coordinated investigation by the country’s Directorate for State Security and Intelligence service, or DSN, “into a global terrorist organization with ties to Hamas.”
In the course of the investigations, the ministry said its intelligence service found “suspicion that a group has brought weapons into Austria to use in possible terrorist attacks in Europe.”
Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office later on Thursday identified the suspect as Mohammed A. in line with German privacy lines. It said in a statement that he met up twice with Abdel Al G. who was arrested in Germany last month on suspicion of plotting attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany.
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The disarming isn’t gonna happen.
Five handguns should not be called a “weapons cache” lol