Overview
- Munich prosecutors say two Belarusian men have been in Bavarian pretrial detention since October 7 on arrest warrants after being accused of planning a paid arson attack in the Nürnberg area.
- The Generalstaatsanwaltschaft München has opened investigations for agent activity for sabotage and agreement to commit arson, alleging the suspects planned to use accelerants against a building or facility of critical infrastructure.
- Romanian authorities have issued European arrest warrants and are seeking the suspects’ extradition, while Romania’s intelligence service (SRI) publicly attributes a mid‑September industrial fire to a Russia‑directed sabotage network—an attribution German prosecutors have not confirmed.
- Reports link the two men to a night‑time blaze on September 14 at an industrial park near Brașov that damaged sites tied to arms production, and Romanian prosecutors say other related arrests have been made in Poland.
- The case is part of a wider wave of suspected sabotage in Europe that has prompted specialized work by Bavaria’s ZET unit and could increase cross‑border legal cooperation and scrutiny of networks that recruit operatives for paid attacks.