German federal prosecutors are investigating a suspect after a weapons cache was found near Berlin last year, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt announced on Friday.<\/p>\n
The individual is suspected of espionage and preparation of a serious act of violence endangering the state, Dobrindt said at a press conference in Berlin, confirming earlier media reports.<\/p>\n
The suspect is in custody in Romania while investigations are ongoing, according to Dobrindt.<\/p>\n
“This case shows that we are operating on the assumption of a high threat level … that we are vigilant towards hybrid threats” the conservative politician said.<\/p>\n
Weapons intended for attacks<\/p>\n
Last October, the domestic intelligence agency learned of a possible weapons stash in woodland on the outskirts of Berlin, Dobrindt said. With the help of police, the cache was located and two handguns and ammunition found there.<\/p>\n
The weapons and ammunition were rendered unusable. and the cache was kept under surveillance in order to identify potential recipients, Dobrindt said.<\/p>\n
“This surveillance produced no result,” he added.<\/p>\n
German authorities believe the weapons and ammunition were intended to be used in attacks. There were indications of attack plans in Romania, where a suspect was arrested, Dobrindt said.<\/p>\n
He did not say whether the plans related only to Romania or also to other locations such as Germany. Investigations are being conducted jointly with Romanian authorities.<\/p>\n
The person arrested is regarded as a “low-level agent,” according to Dobrindt.<\/p>\n
Such individuals, also referred to as “disposable agents,” are not professional spies but operatives working on behalf of foreign intelligence services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German federal prosecutors are investigating a suspect after a weapons cache was found near Berlin last year, German…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[406,18,8337,56499],"class_list":["post-76692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-alexander-dobrindt","tag-berlin","tag-federal-prosecutors","tag-weapons-cache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76692","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=76692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}