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Frankfurt Police

Irish man arrested in Germany with cache of guns and samurai swords seized before 'possible attack'

He was arrested on 15 July.

POLICE IN THE GERMAN city of Frankfurt have arrested an Irish man who had been making threats to officials in the country’s courts system.

The 53-year-old was found to be in possession of several samurai swords and German police, in a statement, said that they stopped a “possible attack”.

Police said the man had been sending multiple “confused” handwritten letters to court staff in the state of Hessen. The police said the letters appeared to show that the man thought he had suffered “injustices” by the courts system and that he was plotting some form of attack. 

The phrasing used by the man led prosecutors to believe he was “mentally confused”. He had cited certain Nazi-era terms such as Reichsbürger (Reich citizen).

On 12 July, believing an attack was imminent, Frankfurt am Main police launched a large-scale operation in a bid to track the man down. Three days later, they tracked him down to a plot of land in northern Frankfurt. He was then arrested.

Screenshot 2021-07-20 3.08.19 PM Some of the weapons which were seized. Frankfurt Police Frankfurt Police

Police obtained a search warrant for the plot of land and discovered guns, samurai swords, crossbows and daggers.

The man is now in custody in Frankfurt and is expected to be formally charged with offences against the German state in the coming days. 

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    Mute John Long
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    Mar 14th 2023, 3:50 PM

    Stomach churning stuff!

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    Mute Fi Wyse
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    Mar 14th 2023, 4:45 PM

    This just goes to show you the lengths that people will go to too to lose weight when they are desperate.
    Get Wegovy on the market now! Get people having conversations with their doctors and start taking a product in a controlled manner.
    Cap the price of each pen to €100 and make it easily accessible for everybody!

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    Mar 14th 2023, 7:38 PM

    @Fi Wyse: Exercise is free and not eating dirt is a money saver.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 9:20 PM

    @Don’t Forget: well straight away you have no idea how obesity works with an ill informed comment like that. Unfortunately eating less and moving more, while it does work for a very large portion of the population does not work for everybody because we don’t all share the same metabolic rates and DNA makeup. If you want to talk about this offline and in an adult manner drop me a message on Facebook and we’ll discuss it and I’ll go through the facts with you based on my own case history.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 11:20 PM

    @Fi Wyse: Hashimotos sufferer here, well aware of how the “eat less, move more” mantra that people like Don’t Forget spout is wrong and overgeneralizing

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    Mar 15th 2023, 5:58 AM

    @Tina Kelly: It’s kinda funny really, the narrative is changing now, the medics know they got it wrong. Weight Watchers the largest slimming group in the world has acquired Sequence in America a telemedical company in the US to prescribe GLP1 meds to people.
    That tells you everything that you need to know. We are on the right path to helping people suffering with food issues all their life. Telling a larger person to just stop eating, ignore cravings and exercise is like telling a depressed person to exercise and be happy or a drug addict to just stop injecting heroin with no meds or therapy to help them. Their bias is sickening and its time to call people out on this.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 6:05 AM

    @Tina Kelly: of course you can be guaranteed that Don’t Forget will never contact me to educate himself and will continue to spout incorrect waffle!

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    Mar 15th 2023, 8:34 AM

    @Fi Wyse: was prescribed ozempic last September in hospital when my hashimotos was diagnosed after years of hypothyroidism, by Christmas my thyroid blood tests were showing signs of returning to normal levels. They are life-changing drugs and not just for their weight loss side effect.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 8:39 AM

    @Tina Kelly: I’m on it myself the last 6 months, two stone down, no joint pain, able to really enjoy my weightlifting now and all my other exercise pain free, so much more enjoyable than what it was before, because ya know I was still doing that ‘free’ exercise but not getting to where I needed to be (insert rolley eyes here)

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    Mar 14th 2023, 4:13 PM

    Botox in your stomach!?!?

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    Mar 14th 2023, 5:44 PM

    @Gearóid MacEachaidh: Far better than in the liathróidí.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 8:23 PM

    They should have walked to Turkey.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 5:56 AM

    Desperation leads to desperate measures, many more cases like this need to be highlighted more often, people going for dental treatment also, in many cases are over treated by giving multiple Crowns, Veneers, Implants etc where they are not needed, it can very often take a couple of months before realising the level of damage that has been done to the mouth.

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