The German police detained on Wednesday at the request of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office after arriving from the Czech Republic an alleged member of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas. According to her, the man was looking for weapons to attack Israeli or Jewish targets in Germany and Europe. TASR informs about it with reference to the DPA agency.
The prosecutor’s office claims that the detainee, Borhan El-K., who was born in Lebanon, obtained weapons for one of the three men arrested on October 1 in Berlin. In August, he acquired an automatic weapon, eight pistols and more than 600 rounds of ammunition in Germany, which he brought to another Hamas member, Wael FM, in Berlin, where they were found on him when he was arrested. Simultaneously with the arrest of Borhan El-K. On Wednesday morning, the Danish police searched premises belonging to him and another suspect in and around Copenhagen.
Another suspected Hamas member was arrested in London last week Mohammed A. This British citizen received weapons from one of the men arrested in Berlin in October and stored them in Austria. Five pistols and ten magazines were found in a recently discovered stash in Vienna. Borhan El.-K. he is accused of being a member of a foreign terrorist organization. Immediately after the arrest he appeared in Karlsruhe before a judge of the Federal Court of Justice, who issued a warrant for his arrest and ordered his detention.
