{"id":30853,"date":"2024-04-20T01:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/germany-arrests-2-in-spying-and-sabotage-case-linked-to-russia\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T01:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:05:54","slug":"germany-arrests-2-in-spying-and-sabotage-case-linked-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/germany-arrests-2-in-spying-and-sabotage-case-linked-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Arrests 2 in Spying and Sabotage Case Linked to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two men have been arrested in Germany over suspicions that they spied for Russia and were part of a plot to sabotage aid to Ukraine by trying to blow up military infrastructure on German soil, the authorities announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The two men, both dual citizens of Russia and Germany, were arrested on Wednesday in Bayreuth, a city about 120 miles north of Munich, German federal prosecutors said. The arrests came as worries grow in Germany about the reach of Russian intelligence<\/a> and disruption operations.<\/p>\n

One of the men had been in contact with Russian intelligence services and had considered a U.S. military base in Germany as one of several potential targets, according to federal prosecutors based in Karlsruhe, in southwestern Germany, who oversaw the arrests.<\/p>\n

The two men have not been formally charged. But the federal prosecutors said that the pair were suspected of working for a foreign intelligence service and, in one man\u2019s case, of illegally taking pictures of military infrastructure and of planning explosive attacks and arson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n