According to security authorities, several suspected Hamas members have been arrested in Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark for allegedly planning attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe.
As the Federal Prosecutor General in Karlsruhe announced on Thursday, three people have been arrested in Berlin and another suspect in Rotterdam. They are suspected of membership of a foreign terrorist organization.
Jewish institutions targeted
According to the investigation, weapons were to be brought to Berlin and kept ready for possible attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe. Danish police said several people have been arrested in Denmark and the Netherlands on suspicion of preparing an attack.
The Danish police spoke of a coordinated cross-border operation with four arrests. “The investigation has shown that a network of people prepared an act of terror,” the head of Denmark’s domestic secret service PET, Flemming Drejer, said at a press conference in Copenhagen.
“Hamas infrastructure on European soil”
However, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, Israel’s Mossad secret service said Danish authorities had discovered a “Hamas infrastructure on European territory” and arrested seven people.
The Danish secret service said in August that the threat to Denmark had worsened after Islamophobic activists damaged several copies of the Quran over the summer.
The arrests and raids that have now taken place are based on intensive research in close cooperation with partners abroad, the PET boss explains. “This is an extremely serious matter,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told the Ritzau news agency on the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels.
Source: Krone
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