Overview
- Austrian state security found five pistols and ten magazines in a suitcase at a rented storage site in Vienna and seized the weapons.
- The UK’s National Crime Agency arrested a 39-year-old British suspect in central London on November 3, identified by German prosecutors as Mohammed A.
- German federal prosecutors say the suspect twice met Abdel/Abed Al G., arrested in Germany last month, received the firearms, and transported them to Austria for storage.
- Investigators say the cache was intended for potential attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions in Europe, while Hamas has publicly denied any link to the suspects.
- The suspect remains in UK custody ahead of a November 10 Westminster Magistrates’ Court hearing as Germany moves for extradition, with Austrian officials praising the operation’s international coordination.