Overview

• Federal prosecutors accuse the men of belonging to a foreign terrorist organization and procuring arms for murder attacks on Israeli or Jewish sites in Germany.
• Investigators seized an AK-47, several pistols and substantial ammunition, and conducted related searches in Leipzig and Oberhausen, where a fourth suspect was investigated but not arrested.
• The suspects—identified as Abed Al G., Wael F. M. and Ahmad I., aged 36, 43 and 44—include two German citizens and are to be presented to the investigative judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe.
• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the trio had been monitored for months and were arrested during a planned weapons handover, with specific targets not yet determined.
• Hamas publicly denied any connection to the detainees, as the arrests renewed political calls to make it easier to revoke German nationality from certain dual nationals accused of terrorism.