Overview

• Stuttgart’s state-protection prosecutors have assumed the investigation and are examining possible charges of forming a criminal organization.
• Five suspects — two men and three women aged 23 to 39 with Irish, British, Spanish and German nationalities — are in pre-trial detention as police search for three to four additional unknown suspects.
• Investigators searched the detainees’ apartments, focusing on Berlin, after the group allegedly forced entry, smashed equipment with axes and hammers, and used paint and smoke devices.
• Damage at the Elbit Systems Deutschland site in Ulm is estimated at roughly €1 million, and the company says the facility produces radios and communications systems for the Bundeswehr.
• Media reports and a circulating video suggest a possible link to the UK-banned group Palestine Action, a connection prosecutors have not confirmed; Israel’s ambassador Ron Prosor denounced the acts as terrorist.