Overview
- Borhan El‑K. was provisionally detained Tuesday evening on Autobahn A17 as he entered from the Czech Republic, with BKA and federal police making the arrest on orders from the federal prosecutor.
- He is to be brought before an investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on suspicion of membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
- Authorities allege he procured a fully automatic rifle, eight pistols, and more than 600 rounds in Germany in August and delivered them to Wael F. M. in Berlin, where the cache was later seized.
- Investigators say the weapons were intended for murders targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
- Danish police searched locations tied to El‑K. in the Copenhagen area on Wednesday, as related actions include three Berlin arrests on October 1, a London arrest of Mohammed A., and an associated weapons cache uncovered in Vienna.