International investigation establishes links between European criminal gangs attempting to attack Israeli embassies and Iran.
Ahead of the Olympic games in Paris, France, Israeli intelligence services—Mossad, Shin Bet, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Intelligence, as well as the National Security Council—exposed Iranian sponsorship of terrorist activity targeting Israelis and Jews across Europe, the Israeli authorities said on Thursday.
Working with the European partners, Israeli intelligence discovered that two criminal networks—FOXTROT and RUMBA—were behind some of the recent attempted terrorist attacks in Europe.
Namely, the statement mentions the incident in which two grenades were thrown at Israeli embassy in Brussels, Belgium earlier in May. According to the intelligence services, the characteristics of the attempted attack—the choice of an Israeli embassy as a target and the grenade type—resembled the attack on the Israeli embassy in Sweden back in January.
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