{"id":298395,"date":"2026-01-22T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/298395\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:07:07","slug":"irishman-charged-in-germany-over-alleged-break-in-of-israeli-arms-facility-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/298395\/","title":{"rendered":"Irishman charged in Germany over alleged break-in of Israeli arms facility \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Irishman has been formally charged for his alleged role in an attack on a German-based facility of the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems last September.<\/p>\n

After four months on remand, Dubliner Daniel Tatlow-Devally and four others have been charged with causing an estimated \u20ac1 million in damage to property, trespassing and using symbols linked to Hamas<\/a>, which is classified in Germany<\/a> as a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n

Mr Tatlow-Devally and the four others \u2013 who are British, German and Spanish citizens \u2013 are also facing charges of membership of a criminal organisation, namely Palestine Action Germany.<\/p>\n

The state prosecutor accuses them of breaking into a premises of Elbit, Israel<\/a>\u2019s largest arms company, in the southwestern German city of Ulm on September 8th last year.<\/p>\n

At around 3.30am the five, along with at least six other unidentified people, are accused of damaging the glass facade of the building using tools and red dye before entering via a side window.<\/p>\n

Once inside, they are accused of smashing, with an intent to destroy, screens, PCs and telephones in offices, as well as sinks and toilets in a bathroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a technical laboratory of the firm, they destroyed sensitive measuring devices as well as electronic machines and smashed screens and windows,\u201d the state prosecutor\u2019s statement said, claiming the accused left \u201cconsiderable damage to property of around \u20ac1 million\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the accused said they are likely to go on trial in April. It is the latest in a series of court cases in Germany linked to the fall-out of the October 7th, 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel \u2013 and Israel\u2019s military response<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Family of Dubliner held over Israeli arms factory break-in criticises treatment by GermanyOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

The five accused have been held on remand since September after a Stuttgart court agreed with prosecutors that there was a real flight risk.<\/p>\n

As well as the main charges, defence lawyers are likely to dispute prosecutor claims over Palestine Action Germany and Hamas.<\/p>\n

The former is a British pro-Palestinian direct-action network, proscribed in the UK last July as a terrorist organisation. <\/b>Its German sister organisation has not been classified as a criminal or terrorist organisation. <\/p>\n

Another point of contention will be what classifies as a symbol of Hamas.<\/p>\n

A month after the October 7th attacks, Germany\u2019s interior ministry issued a decree outlawing the phrase, \u201cFrom the the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201d. This was based on its symbolic links to Hamas.<\/p>\n

The claim has been disputed by campaigners and dismissed by several German courts. With no final ruling, however, the phrase and its Hamas links remains a point of legal dispute.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the state prosecutor\u2019s office in Stuttgart said the indictment \u201cassumes\u201d the phrase \u201cfrom the river to the sea . . .\u201d fulfils the terms of the November 2023 decree.<\/p>\n

He added the prosecutor \u201cassumes\u201d that Palestine Action Germany is an organisation \u201cwhose purpose or activity is aimed at committing serious criminal offences\u201d \u2013 something it will aim to prove during the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irishman has been formally charged for his alleged role in an attack on a German-based facility of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,52,13,14,6621,6,71,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-298395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115941031571589239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}