THREE suspected Hamas terrorists appeared in court in Germany yesterday as police claimed to have foiled a chilling terror plot.
The trio – caught with weapons including an AK47 assault rifle, pistols and ammunition – were feared to be about to export October 7-style horror to Europe.
ReutersA suspected operative of Hamas is arrested in Germany[/caption]
Investigators believed they were plotting attacks on Israeli or Jewish sites – like the synagogue attacked in Manchester yesterday.
Germany’s federal prosecutor alleged that they had been procuring firearms in recent months to prepare for a terrorist massacre.
Several pistols and a large cache of ammunition were among weapons taken when police swooped 24 hours before the Manchester attack.
No evidence of a connection between the two incidents had emerged last night – but fears of Palestinian terror spreading across Europe was sparking security concerns.
Two of the Berlin suspects are German citizens but the third was said to have been born in Lebanon.
They were named only as – named as Abed Al G, Wael F M and Ahmad I.
Hamas has carried out hundreds of attacks against Israeli civilians but rarely operated outside the region and they denied involvement.
Details of the plot remained unclear last night – and it was also uncertain whether they were acting on Hamas orders or were self-motivated Palestinian sympathisers.
The worrying arrests came as Hamas appeared spent as a fighting force in Gaza as Donald Trump called on them to surrender or face an unbridled Israeli onslaught.
A German federal judge ruled that the Berlin trio should remain in jail ahead of a full trial for alleged membership in a foreign terrorist organization and plotting serious acts of violence.
Police arrested members of Hamas in Berlin in December 2023 when four suspects were feared to be plotting to attack Jewish institutions in Europe.