Dobrindt said that past October Germany's home quality bureau became alert of a imaginable weapons cache successful the woods connected the outskirts of Berlin.
Officials located the stash with the assistance of the Berlin State police, and recovered 2 handguns and ammunition.
The German information authorities fishy the weapons and ammunition recovered were intended for usage successful attacks.
Reports successful German regular paper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the nationalist broadcasters NDR and WDR accidental the cache was to facilitate targeted killings connected behalf of Moscow.
Dobrindt said aft the guns were rendered inoperable, the weapons cache was placed nether surveillance for months but cipher was seen approaching it.
"This lawsuit demonstrates that we are operating nether a precocious menace level," Dobrindt said.
The curate said prosecutors were investigating a fishy successful Romania, who is being held successful transportation with planned parcel weaponry attacks there. He said this would beryllium taken into relationship erstwhile it came to a imaginable extradition.
He described the fishy arsenic a "low-level agent", and declined to disclose his nationality.
Several akin operatives had been detained truthful acold this year, helium said, including 1 idiosyncratic from Kazakhstan.
The probe follows erstwhile accusations of Russian attacks connected German soil.
In 2024, German governmental figures reacted angrily to a CNN study that Russia had plotted to termination the caput of Germany's biggest arms company Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger.
In 2021 a German tribunal jailed Russian nationalist Vadim Krasikov for beingness for a execution successful a Berlin parkland and said it had been ordered by Moscow. Krasikov was aboriginal freed successful a captive swap.
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