Austria’s domestic intelligence service has uncovered a weapons cache in Vienna, believed to be linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas for use in “possible terrorist attacks in Europe”, the government stated.
“According to the current state of the investigation, Israeli or Jewish institutions in Europe were likely to be the targets of these attacks”, the interior ministry statement said. The weapons cache was discovered in a suitcase in a rented storage room in Vienna and contained five handguns and 10 magazines.
“The mission is clear: zero tolerance for terrorists”, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner stated.
