Investigators find 40 semi-automatic weapons in an earthen bunker. Stolen from a train at Mesh.
There is some evidence to suggest that the perpetrators camouflaged this depot with dog feces. According to the information, the container came from China and was transported via the port of Hamburg by rail towards southern Germany. The target was a weapons company, as Wiebke Bethke from the Lüneburg public prosecutor's office explained. It was a legal transport of weapons. The stolen goods are fully functional firearms that are externally similar to the M16 assault rifle, the federal police said. “The success lies in the fact that we prevented these weapons from falling into criminal hands anywhere,” said operations manager Helgo Martens from the Federal Police. ‘That would certainly have been a scary threat,’ said Martens. An arrest warrant has already been issued against a woman who is believed to have been involved in the crime. Now it must be clarified whether other perpetrators were involved.