Overview
- A suspect disclosed another concealed cellar compartment behind a display case, roughly 1.20 meters high, which investigators searched.
- Police say the newly found space contained 28 machine guns and three anti-tank rifles.
- Authorities describe the overall haul as a three-digit number of weapons, with earlier figures citing hundreds of long guns plus pistols, grenades, mines and rocket launchers.
- Prosecutors say items from the first two secret rooms were live weapons, while overall operability remains under examination and removal is expected to take several days.
- The 59-year-old main suspect is being investigated for possession of war weapons and weapons-law violations, investigations extend to other individuals, and a senior prosecutor says the seizure could be among North Rhine-Westphalia’s largest.