Overview

• Federal prosecutors say police seized an AK-47, several pistols and a considerable amount of ammunition during the operation.
• The men were provisionally charged with membership in a foreign terrorist organization and preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state.
• Authorities identified the suspects, in line with privacy rules, as Abed Al G. and Ahmad I. who hold German citizenship, and Wael F. M. who was born in Lebanon.
• Searches linked to the case were conducted in Leipzig and Oberhausen as investigators assess the network behind the alleged plot.
• Hamas issued a statement denying any connection to the suspects, while prosecutors link the arrests to ongoing European probes that have already led to a Berlin trial of alleged operatives.