2023-12-15 15:13:28
The detainees are suspected of the crime of integration into a foreign terrorist organization.
Four alleged members of the Islamist group Hamas have been arrested in Germany and the Netherlands by police officers, as announced by the German Federal State Prosecutor’s Office in a statement.
Three of them, an Egyptian citizen, a Dutch citizen and an individual born in Lebanon whose nationality was not specified, were detained at the request of the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice, while another man born in Lebanon was provisionally arrested. .
Three were arrested in the German capital of Berlin, while the Dutch citizen was detained in the city of Rotterdam thanks to a European search and arrest warrant.
SUSPECTS
The four are suspected of the crime of integration into a foreign terrorist organization and the Prosecutor’s Office describes them as “long-term members” of Hamas who have participated in the group’s operations abroad.
One of them, Abdelhamid A., began looking for a place to hide weapons in Europe in the spring of this year, following orders from Hamas cadres in Lebanon, according to this version.
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