Police detain fourth suspect after arson attack on Czech defence factory
Czech police have detained a fourth suspect following an arson attack on an optics and drones factory this month and a court has ordered the person be held in custody, police said on X on Saturday.
A previously unknown pro-Palestinian activist group had claimed responsibility for the March 20 attack on the LPP company’s factory in Pardubice, east of Prague, which caused millions of dollars in damage.
Police said the newly detained person held Czech citizenship but did not specify if it was a man or a woman. A search for other suspects continued, police said.
The fourth suspect denied participation in any illegal activity, news agency CTK quoted the judge who ordered the person be held in custody as saying.
Czech police had earlier detained an Egyptian man and a Czech woman and charged them with terrorism. Another person, a U.S. citizen, had been detained in neighbouring Slovakia in relation to the attack.
The group that claimed responsibility has said in a statement posted online that the targeted company was developing weapons for Israel.
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