BERLIN \u2014 Germany’s interior minister said Friday that a cache of weapons and ammunition found near Berlin last year was intended for use in attacks, and that a suspect has been arrested in Romania.<\/p>\n
Alexander Dobrindt told reporters on Friday that federal prosecutors have launched an investigation into the weapons discovery, which was first reported in various German media.<\/p>\n
Dobrindt said that the participation of \u201cforeign powers\u201d could not be ruled out, and that the investigation would look into that possibility.<\/p>\n
The suspect in custody in Romania had \u201cattack plans,\u201d the minister said. Romanian authorities did not immediately comment on the case. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigation is directed against intelligence agency activity and against the preparation of a serious state-endangering crime,\u201d Dobrindt told reporters in Berlin, explaining that it involved a \u201chigh-risk situation.\u201d He did not provide further details.<\/p>\n
Contacted by The Associated Press, the federal prosecutors’ office in the western city of Karlsruhe declined to comment. <\/p>\n
Dobrindt explained that German authorities were informed of a possible weapons cache outside Berlin in October, and subsequently located it. \u201cTwo handguns and corresponding ammunition were stored in this hiding place,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2014 Germany’s interior minister said Friday that a cache of weapons and ammunition found near Berlin last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1773,23,5,1774],"class_list":["post-76636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-ap-a-wire","tag-crime","tag-germany","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}