Six people have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling weapons to radical Islamists in Sweden, according to the Bosnian authorities.
Another two suspects hunted by police in Bosnia.
the effort is part of an international police operation known as “Wolf RS”.
Five of the individuals arrested in Bosnia yesterday. One person was arrested in Sweden on a previous occasion.
According to the Bosnian Interior Ministry arrested the five people in the cities Gradiska and Laktasi of the Bosnian Serb state Republika Srpska.
There are two additional suspects who are still at large.
– They are in Bosnia, says Mirna Miljanovic, press spokesman at the Bosnian Interior Ministry.
She wants the current situation does not give more details about the detainees age and gender.
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Automatic weapons and grenades
the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry’s anti-terror unit has conducted seven raids in the country, in the area in and around the town of Gradiska and Laktasi. Then seized a large quantity of weapons and military equipment. Photos of the fittings are visible automatic weapons, grenade plays and hand grenades.
The raids are part of a major international police operation called “Wolf RS”. Swedish police are involved in the effort, according to TT.
Bosnian media reports claiming that the weapons would be delivered to a Swedish group called Muslim brothers.
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Fredrik Mildner, press officer at the Swedish Security Service, SAPO , is very secretive about what happened.
– I have no information to provide on this, he says.
What is it?
– simply because I have no information to provide. I can not give any details and it is not likely that we will be able to say something in the near future.
How has Sapo involved in the operation?
– I can not say anything about it, says Fredrik Mildner
Even the regular police are tight-lipped.
– I have no information on this at present, says Johan Kockum, press secretary of the police’s national media center.
“We have no comments to this information at present. We are waiting for more information from Bosnia, “wrote Carolina Ekeus, press secretary at Noah, national police operational department.
Many weapons are in circulation
According to estimates there are millions of weapons in the Balkans . A large part of the illegal weapons entering in Sweden is suspected to come from there.
After the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, the discussion of the extensive smuggling gained new momentum. TT reports that the Belgian capital is a hub for trade in arms from the Balkans.
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