IN JANUARY a maintenance worker at Vienna Airport found a loaded 7.65 calibre pistol in the pipe of a public toilet. He told the Austrian police, who put the toilet under surveillance. A month later they arrested a man who appeared to be searching for the gun. He turned out to be a lieutenant in the Bundeswehr, the German army, who claimed he had drunkenly found the weapon in some bushes and had hidden it in a panic. But investigations suggested something much darker.
“Franco A”, as he is known, had allegedly been living a double life. He served in the 291 Light Infantry Battalion at a base in eastern France. In his time off, he lived at a refugee centre in Bavaria, masquerading as David Benjamin, a Syrian asylum seeker driven from his home by Islamic State. According to press reports he was an extremist planning false-flag terror attacks, including the assassinations of Germany’s ex-president and its justice minister. The saga...Continue reading
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