“I can only confirm that there is a link. I can say that a joint investigative group is working, which includes officers from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Latvia, [and] other countries. The countries are cooperating,” said Grunskienė.
She noted that in Lithuania one case had been transferred to court, which includes five defendants, and in another case a pre-trial investigation is ongoing actively, which involves around ten suspects who are wanted.
German media earlier reported that DNA traces were found on an explosive-laden drone in Leipzig Airport in August, which match DNA previously recorded in Lithuania, in the case of incendiary parcels.
Security cameras caught the moment how in August a drone hit a wing of an Antonov plane in Leipzig Airport.
After the discovery of the drone, a second unidentified flying object collided with a DHL cargo aircraft, which had to go around as the runway was closed.
German newspaper Bild reported that DNA was not linked to a specific person, but it matched an older sample recorded in 2024, in connection to the arson of DHL logistics warehouse in Leipzig using an incendiary parcel.
According to Die Zeit, there is no data suggesting that both cases are connected.
In July 2024, a parcel at DHL logistics hub in Leipzig caught fire. Investigators later determined that it contained an incendiary device. Similar incidents occurred in the United Kingdom and Poland.
In March, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Lithuania made allegations against five individuals in relation to these incendiary parcel incidents.