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More than 70 automatic and semi-automatic firearms and ammunition in the six-figure range have been seized in the past three days in Austria in the event of an attack on a right-wing extremist network. The Vienna State Criminal Police Office (LKA) came across this during drug deliveries from Germany in October. Five arrests in Austria and two in Germany were the result, he said at a press conference in Vienna on Saturday.
Video: The press conference with Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (VP) to see
Drug delivery from Germany led to Netzwerk
According to Michael Mimra, deputy director of the LKA, the investigation into the delivery of drugs from Germany revealed that the proceeds were used to buy weapons destined for Germany. The main suspect is an officially known 53-year-old Austrian with a criminal record who is said to have started the trade with several accomplices.
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During a house search last Wednesday, Uzis, assault rifles and ammunition were seized, on Thursday a container with additional weapons, ammunition and explosives, and yesterday Friday around 100,000 rounds of ammunition and numerous long weapons were found in a warehouse in Baja Austria. According to Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP), the military equipment was destined for the right-wing extremist scene in Germany “in order to establish a radical right-wing militia.”
