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Dobrindt said that last October Germany’s domestic intelligence agency became aware of a possible weapons cache in the woods on the outskirts of Berlin. <\/p>\n
Officials located the stash with the help of the Berlin State police, and found two handguns and ammunition.<\/p>\n
The German security authorities suspect the weapons and ammunition found were intended for use in attacks.<\/p>\n
Reports in German daily newspaper S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung and the public broadcasters NDR and WDR say the cache was to facilitate targeted killings on behalf of Moscow.<\/p>\n
Dobrindt said after the guns were rendered inoperable, the weapons cache was placed under surveillance for months but nobody was seen approaching it.<\/p>\n
“This case demonstrates that we are operating under a high threat level,” Dobrindt said.<\/p>\n
The minister said prosecutors were investigating a suspect in Romania, who is being held in connection with planned parcel bomb attacks there. He said this would be taken into account when it came to a possible extradition.<\/p>\n
He described the suspect as a “low-level agent”, and declined to disclose his nationality.<\/p>\n
Several similar operatives had been detained so far this year, he said, including one person from Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
The investigation follows previous accusations of Russian attacks on German soil.<\/p>\n
In 2024, German political figures reacted angrily to a CNN report that Russia had plotted to kill the head of Germany’s biggest arms company<\/a> Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger.<\/p>\n In 2021 a German court jailed Russian national Vadim Krasikov for life for a murder in a Berlin park and said it had been ordered by Moscow<\/a>. Krasikov was later freed in a prisoner swap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n