The police have already detained five people in connection with the fire at the armory in Pardubice. Investigators are talking about several attackers and are looking into the suspicion of terrorism.
In connection with the fire at the LPP Holding armory in Pardubice, the police detained a total of five people, the Supreme State Attorney’s Office in Prague confirmed on Monday. TASR informs about this according to reports from Novinky.cz and iDnes.cz portals.
According to the Supreme State Attorney’s Office in Prague, the fifth person was detained on Sunday. “There were many more perpetrators on the spot. In the course of time, it was also possible to detain other persons. Today we have five persons detained out of the larger number of attackers who were on the spot,” said the head of the Czech Ministry of the Interior, Lubomír Metnar, at a joint press conference with the Slovak Minister of the Interior, Matúš Šutaj Eštok.
Other suspects detained
The detention of the fifth person was subsequently confirmed by the High State Attorney’s Office in Prague, which supervises this case. According to the council’s press release published on its website, the latest arrest took place on Sunday, March 29.
On Saturday, the Czech police announced the arrest of a fourth person with Czech citizenship who is suspected of starting a fire in an industrial complex in Pardubice. The judge of the Pardubice District Court decided to place her in custody for all three detention reasons.
International cooperation in detention
On Monday, Metnar thanked Slovakia for detaining a suspect in this case, which the Czech police are investigating as a suspected terrorist attack. In connection with the fire in Pardubice, they detained one person in Slovakia, who was placed in custody by the regional court in Bratislava. It follows from the statements of the Czech police presidium that this is a woman with American citizenship. She filed a complaint against the decision and the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic will decide on it.
The fire in the industrial area in Pardubice broke out on Friday, March 20, due to a sudden explosion. The hall in which the fire started belongs to the Czech arms company LPP Holding, which, among other things, also produces drones. The attack was claimed by the previously unknown group The Earthquake Faction, which claims that its aim was to destroy the “epicenter of the Israeli arms industry” in Europe.
