PRAGUE: Czech police have charged three men detained on Tuesday over an arson attack at an arms company linked to a deal with an Israeli firm.
The blaze, which did not cause injuries, broke out at a warehouse in the central city of Pardubice on Friday.
Police are probing a terror link after a group claimed responsibility for the arson at what it called “a key production centre for Israeli weapons”, in emails to Czech media.
On Tuesday, police said they had detained three people -- “Czech and US citizens,” one in Slovakia and two in the Czech Republic -- over the arson.
“The National Centre Against Terrorism, Extremism and Cybercrime started criminal proceedings with the detained for the crime of terror attack,” Prague prosecutor Zdenek Stepanek said in a statement.
