Hamas denies links to suspects arrested in Germany
The Islamist militant group Hamas has denied any links to the suspects arrested in Germany on suspicion of procuring weapons for potential attacks on Israeli or Jewish targets.
“The allegations that the detainees have ties with Hamas are baseless and aim to harm the movement’s reputation and distort the German people’s sympathy with our Palestinian people.
“Hamas stresses that its policy has always been, and remains, to confine its struggle against the Zionist occupation solely within Palestine,” the group said in a statement.
German federal prosecutors said earlier on Wednesday that they arrested three suspected Hamas members in Berlin who were accused of procuring firearms and ammunition for potential attacks on Israeli or Jewish targets in the country.
Interior minister Alexander Dobrindt described the threat as “concrete” and said Germany was clearly a “zone of activity” for terrorists.
(dpa/NAN)
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