Overview

• On August 7, police executed a search warrant at Philip Steinbeck’s Lübtheen property to investigate suspected illegal possession of weapons and explosives.
• Around 60 officers, including Landeskriminalamt special forces, explosive-detection dogs and munitions experts, took part in the early-morning operation.
• Authorities confiscated several sharp firearms believed to violate the War Weapons Control Act along with large quantities of explosives.
• Seized items are undergoing forensic examination as the Staatsanwaltschaft Schwerin looks into violations of the Weapons Act, Explosives Act and War Weapons Control Act.
• Steinbeck denies that black powder or deactivated arms qualify as explosives or war weapons and now faces intensified scrutiny amid broader probes into illicit arms caches and extremist ties.