A second Afghan national has been arrested in connection to a plot to attack Jewish targets in Germany, four months after his co-conspirator was apprehended.
Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrest of Tawab M. on Wednesday on charges of attempted participation in a homicide. Tawab M. was successfully detained in Denmark in a coordinated effort between the two countries, after Germany put out an arrest warrant for him and he faces extradition to Germany.
According to Tawab M.’s arrest warrant, he has been involved in the procurement of weapons and equipment as well as technology for explosive devices in Denmark for “some time.”
He was in contact with Afghan-Danish national Ali S. (arrested in July 2025) who is believed to have worked for an Iranian intelligence agency. In late May 2025, Tawab M. promised Ali S. to procure weapons for an unidentified third individual and incite them to commit an attack on Jewish targets in Germany.
Chief of Denmark’s intelligence service PET, Finn Borch Andersen said: “We take this very seriously, especially given the use of intermediaries and criminal networks to plan violent acts.”
The arrest of Ali S. received significant international media attention earlier this year, partly due to suspected Iranian involvement.
Spying on Jewish locations and Jewish people in Berlin
Ali S. was charged with spying on Jewish locations and Jewish people in Berlin in order to collect information for Iranian intelligence services. This included spying on three targets in June 2025, “presumably to prepare further intelligence operations in Germany, possibly leading to attacks against Jewish targets.”
Danish intelligence officers intercepted online messages between him and a Quds Force officer and alerted German authorities. Germany then began surveillance of Ali S., including bugging his house in Aarhus.
Germany’s Bild newspaper – citing investigative sources – reported that Ali S. photographed at least 10 sites in Germany in 2025, including the German Israeli Society, an Israeli restaurant in Berlin-Schöneberg, a kosher supermarket near Kurfürstendamm, and the office of the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster.
Ali S. then flew with his family from Germany to Turkey in June 2025 under the guise of a family visit. According to Bild, Turkish spy agency MIT and the Mossad took over surveillance, noting that Ali S. drove 1,500 km. to the Iranian border, where he entered the Islamic Republic, and then traveled to meet a Quds Force officer in Tehran to pass on the photos and videos.
Ali S. left Iran using forged documents, as his Danish passport was not stamped. When he returned from Iran to Denmark, the recording devices in his house captured him telling his family he had handed the information he had collected to his handler in Tehran.