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Joint Austrian-German police operation targets neo-Nazis, seizes arms
[IsraelTimes] Austria’s interior minister says the weapons captured during raids were to be used to ’establish a far-right network’ in Germany.Austrian police seized automatic weapons, explosives and narcotics during raids on neo-Nazi  ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....sympathizers, and arrested several of them, the government said Saturday. German police in Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia states also arrested two suspects in connection with the operation. The weapons were to be used to "establish a far-right network" in Germany, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told a news conference in Vienna. Five men aged 21 to 53 with links to neo-Nazi groups were arrested in Austria, and were "unfortunately known for a while already" in the country, Nehammer said. In October, Austrian Sherlocks began to track drug deliveries from Germany and discovered that the profits were being used to buy arms. A series of searches uncovered 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 100 firearms, explosives that included hand grenades, narcotics and cash, a Viennese police statement said. Investigators also recovered items issued by the World War II German army, the Wehrmact. Related: Neo-Nazi: 2020-11-17 Dutch prosecutors: Saudi embassy shooting had terror motive Neo-Nazi: 2020-10-05 German police arrest suspect after assault near synagogue in Hamburg Neo-Nazi: 2020-10-01 German Biker Gang Stages Vigil to Protect Munich Synagogue During Yom Kippur Services, Neo-Nazis Haunt Jews Hatefully Across Scandinavia Related: Bavaria: 2020-11-28 Town changes its name... Bavaria: 2020-10-01 German Biker Gang Stages Vigil to Protect Munich Synagogue During Yom Kippur Services, Neo-Nazis Haunt Jews Hatefully Across Scandinavia Bavaria: 2020-09-17 Alles ist nicht in Ordnung in Gaarmisch-Partenkirchen Related: North Rhine-Westphalia: 2020-10-23 Suspected Islamist was under observation on day of Dresden attack North Rhine-Westphalia: 2020-10-22 Knife attack that killed one tourist and seriously injured another in the German city of Dresden in early October is being treated as a terrorist attack North Rhine-Westphalia: 2020-09-14 Driver stabbed in German town in possible terror attack Posted by: trailing wife 2020-12-13 |
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