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Man jailed in Germany for trying to smuggle arms to Paris
2016-09-30
[AlAhram] A Montenegrin man was handed a four-year jail sentence in Germany Thursday for heading to Gay Paree with assault rifles and explosives hidden in his car shortly before the November attacks.

The 51-year-old was locked away
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
 during a routine check on a Bavarian motorway on November 5, just over a week before 130 people were killed in a coordinated suicide bomb and gun assault in the French capital.

Police discovered a cache of weapons in his car, including eight Kalashnikovs, handguns, two hand grenades and 200 grammes (nearly half a pound) of TNT explosives.

The accused, Vlatko Vucelic, told the superior regional court in Munich at the start of his trial this month that he was aware the weapons were in the car but he denied any knowledge of an attack being planned.
Possibly true... though one wonders for whom and why he thought he was transporting such illegal items.
The court on Thursday convicted the defendant, who had no previous criminal record, of unlawful possession and transportation of assault weapons.

But it said in a statement that it "had not been proved that he was to bring the weapons to Gay Paree knowingly for a planned attack".

The court was unable to determine who had ordered the arms shipment, paying the defendant 2,000 euros ($2,240) for the transport.
I seem to recall that the DoD had a cute little program they used in Iraq to trace all the connections between the people the troops dealt with, until patterns revealed themselves. It would be a lovely thing to apply to 15,000 the French authorities are keeping an eye on, and the 5,000, as I recall, that the Germans are watching ditto, crossed with those who have been killed or arrested while on ISIS' business -- and all the names on their phones and laptops.
Prosecutors had argued he was fully aware the weapons were to be used for a planned terror attack.

The sentence was the result of a plea bargain based on a full confession.

The deadly November onslaught in Gay Paree was claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  "I thought they was for an Islamic wedding"

"My brother is marrying my sister, so it's a double celebration for me."?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-30 13:27  

#3  Police discovered a cache of weapons in his car, including eight Kalashnikovs, handguns, two hand grenades and 200 grammes (nearly half a pound) of TNT explosives.

"I thought they was for an Islamic wedding"
Posted by: Frank G   2016-09-30 11:43  

#2  Skidmark wins!
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-09-30 10:40  

#1  Man jailed in Germany for trying to smuggle arms to Paris
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-09-30 03:53  

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