Following the arrest of three suspected Hamas terrorists, there are calls for dual nationals to have their German passports revoked more easily. German citizenship can already be lost today if someone participates in combat operations of a terrorist organization abroad, explained CDU interior politician Alexander Throm in the "Handelsblatt". "There is no reason not to apply this to acts of terrorism committed in Germany."
The three detainees, including a naturalized native Lebanese and a naturalized native Syrian, are to be brought before the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe this morning. They were arrested in Berlin on Wednesday.
As so-called foreign operatives of the Islamist terrorist organization, they are alleged to have procured a Kalashnikov assault rifle, pistols and ammunition for attacks from Germany, according to the federal prosecutor's office. "The weapons were to be used by Hamas for assassination attacks on Israeli or Jewish facilities in Germany." According to a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's office, searches were also carried out in Leipzig, where one of the suspects lived, and at the home of a fourth suspect in Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia who was not arrested.
