Overview
- British national Mohammed A. was detained in London through mutual legal assistance at the request of Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor.
- Prosecutors allege he helped prepare murders targeting Israeli or Jewish sites in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and suspect membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
- After transfer from the United Kingdom, he is to be brought before an investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice.
- Investigators say he received five pistols and ammunition from a Berlin suspect in the summer and later stored the weapons in Vienna.
- Austria’s state protection service DSN seized five handguns and ten magazines in Vienna, and three other suspects were arrested in Berlin five weeks earlier under separate warrants.