Federal Prosecutor's Office: Suspect Had Confession Video – Investigators Assume Planned Hamas Attack on October 7, 2025

Confession Video and Attack Planning

Since autumn of last year, the Federal Prosecutor's Office had a total of nine suspected Hamas supporters arrested, as Rommel explained on Monday evening in Karlsruhe. The office accuses them of having been involved in the transport and storage of weapons and ammunition for the organization no later than summer 2025. The first three suspects in the complex were arrested by his office on October 1, 2025 – that is, just a few days before the anniversary, Rommel explained, according to the broadcast by Deutschlandfunk. The Prosecutor General has headed the Karlsruhe office since March 2024.

As Germany's supreme law enforcement authority, the Federal Prosecutor's Office is primarily responsible for the areas of terrorism, espionage, and international criminal law. It is leading the investigation in the complex because a terrorist background is suspected. The office accuses them of having been involved in the transport and storage of weapons and ammunition for Hamas. According to the investigators, the weapons were to be used specifically for attacks in Europe.

Role of the Federal Prosecutor's Office

The investigators assume that the weapons were intended to be used for murder attacks on Israeli or Jewish facilities in Germany and Europe. German investigators assume that the terrorist organization Hamas had planned a concrete terrorist attack for October 7, 2025. Hamas planned a concrete attack in Europe, Rommel summarized the findings of his office.

Where the planned attack was to take place, the investigators have not publicly disclosed so far. A pre-produced confession video was secured from one of the accused, as Rommel explained. The confession video, which was presumably intended to serve as a propaganda instrument and to announce the attack, suggests, according to the investigators' assessment, professional planning and a direct connection to the Hamas network.

Cross-Border Arrests in Europe

In the following months, a further six men were arrested in Germany and other European countries in connection with the case – most recently at the end of May in Denmark. Previously, there had also been arrests in the United Kingdom and Cyprus. This means that the Federal Prosecutor's Office has coordinated arrests in at least five European countries in recent months, underscoring the cross-border nature of the alleged network.

According to the conviction of the Berlin Kammergericht, which in March 2026 convicted four members of a Hamas underground cell, the men, as foreign operatives of Hamas, had searched for weapons caches in Germany, Poland, Denmark, and Bulgaria, among other places. The judges considered it proven that those convicted acted as members of a foreign terrorist organization. It was the first time that a German Higher Regional Court classified Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization within the meaning of the Criminal Code.

Conviction of the Hamas Underground Cell in Berlin

The Federal Prosecutor's Office accuses the accused of having been involved in the transport and storage of weapons and ammunition for the organization no later than summer 2025. The office accuses them of having been involved in the transport and storage of weapons and ammunition for Hamas. The charges are thus directed against a logistical chain that is alleged to have encompassed the transport of weapons across several European countries.

In Vienna, a weapons cache belonging to a globally active terrorist organization with ties to Hamas was discovered in November of last year. Part of the weapons is said to have been transported to Vienna, where, according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, one of the accused maintained a storage facility. The Vienna finds are related to the later arrests in Germany and other European countries.

Weapons Finds in Vienna and European Logistics

Prosecutor General Rommel has headed the Karlsruhe office since March 2024. He said the arrests had taken place only a few days before the presumably planned time of the attack. Prosecutor General Jens Rommel presented the findings to date on Monday evening in Karlsruhe. Nine suspected Hamas terrorists have been arrested by the Federal Prosecutor's Office in recent months.

A pre-produced confession video was secured from one of nine suspected supporters of the terrorist organization arrested in recent months, Rommel further explained. According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, the video was found in the seized evidence of the accused and is currently being analyzed both forensically and in terms of content. Findings regarding the content of the video and the planned act have so far only been made public in broad outline.

Outlook on Further Investigations

This news was broadcast on 16.06.2026 on the Deutschlandfunk program. The Federal Prosecutor's Office provided information on the current status of the proceedings complex at its annual press conference. Further details on the exact course of the planned act, the role of the individual accused, and possible connections abroad initially remained undisclosed, citing the ongoing investigations.

The proceedings against the accused are likely to drag on for several years. The question of whether the Berlin verdict against the four members of the Hamas underground cell becomes final is also still open. Prosecutor General Rommel announced that his office would continue to pursue the case with great urgency, in particular the still-open questions regarding the persons who commissioned the attack, financing, and the logistics of the alleged attack.

The arrests in Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, and Austria reveal, from the investigators' perspective, a cross-border network that deliberately sought to provide weapons for attacks on Israeli or Jewish facilities in Europe. The Federal Prosecutor's Office sees the case as evidence that Hamas also represents a concrete threat on European soil.