A Palestinian was arrested Monday trying to smuggle arms and explosives aboard a car ferry sailing to Israel.
The man, identified as Omar Sofrini, was driving a Mercedes. An inspection of the car, reportedly prompted by Israeli security agents at Piraeus, the port of Athens, uncovered concealed weapons and explosives.
Sofrini had booked passage aboard the car ferry Paloma, which sails twice weekly from Piraeus to Haifa via Cyprus. He carried a German passport and reportedly entered Greece by car from Yugoslavia.
The arms and explosives may have been intended for Palestinian terrorists in Israel. The Greek authorities have given no details of the affair.
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