Overview
- Austrian state security investigators found five pistols and ten magazines hidden in a suitcase in a rented Vienna storage site and seized them.
- Authorities say the cache is believed linked to Hamas’s foreign operations and was brought in for potential attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions in Europe.
- The suspect, identified by Austrian services and in reports as Mohamed A., was detained on Nov. 3 in central London.
- The UK National Crime Agency confirmed the arrest and said the man will remain in custody until a Nov. 10 hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
- Officials describe weeks of internationally coordinated inquiries that also reference earlier arrests in Germany, while Hamas has publicly denied links to those German suspects.