An American was among three people arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed a warehouse in the Czech Republic linked to a company supplying drones to Ukraine.
Two suspects were arrested in the Czech Republic, while a third was detained in Slovakia and faces possible extradition. Authorities are investigating the suspected arson attack as an act of terrorism. Police identified the suspects as U.S. and Czech nationals.
“Based on what we know so far, it is likely the incident may be related to a terrorist attack,” Interior Minister Lubomir Metnar said.
An unnamed protest group claimed responsibility for the fire in letters sent to Czech media outlets, according to multiple reports. The group reportedly said it had intended to target Czech defense firm LPP Holding, which operates in the same complex, alleging the company was supplying drones to Israel.
The group described the warehouse in Pardubice as a “key manufacturing hub” for Israeli weapons and stated that the fire was intended to end the company’s alleged role in the “genocide in Gaza.”
LLP Holding released a statement confirming that a fire had been reported at one of its facilities, but denied manufacturing Israeli drones. The company acknowledged that it had explored cooperation with Israeli firm Elbit Systems in 2023, but said nothing ever came of it.
“No Israeli drones have ever been manufactured at our facility,” LPP’s statement now.
One of the suspects has been identified as Youssef Morsi, who has been linked to a number of protest groups and has also been associated with pro-Palestinian activism.
Prague Youth Queer & Intersectional Collective for Palestine, another organization to which Morsi has been linked, released a statement via Instagram saying that some “connected with the movement” had been approached by police in connection with the investigation and offered tips for anyone dealing with law enforcement.
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“The Charlie Kirk Show” producer Blake Neff speculated on the wild sequence of events, saying, “An Egyptian with U.S. citizenship (for some reason) went to the Czech Republic and burned down a factory making drones for Ukraine because he thought it was making them for Israel. Immigration gives us so many novel sentences and crimes we would not have otherwise. We are very enriched.”
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