2023-12-14 18:24:13
The German police reported this Thursday the arrest of suspected Hamas memberssuspected of planning attacks against Jewish goals in Europe. Three arrests took place in Berlin and a fourth in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Sources of the secret services Denmark, PET, They also reported several more arrests in that country, apparently related to the previous ones, although so far no details of the operation have been released.
Those detained in the German capital are a citizen Egyptianand Dutch and a Lebaneseto whom the Prosecutor’s Office accuses them of belonging to a foreign terrorist organization y weapon possession. One of them would be the coordinator of the group, which would be organizing an arsenal of weapons for Palestinian terrorism from the German capital. The weekly “Der Spiegel” reports, citing police sources, that the group’s activities They are not in direct relationship with the Hamas attacks of October 7 against Israelsince they started between last spring and summer.
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Germany’s security forces, like those of France and other European countries, are alarmed by the growing danger of attacks on their territory, mainly against Jewish targets. Security devices have also been redoubled around the christmas markets from all over Germany, already reinforced since the attack committed by the Tunisian jihadist Anis Amri in 2019 against one of the Berlin center. Twelve people died when the terrorist threw a stolen 25-ton truck into the market.
The head of the Interior of the European Commission (EC), Ylva Johansson, warned a few days ago that Europe faces an “enormous danger” of attacks in the upcoming Christmas holidays, as a consequence of the war between Israel and Hamas.
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