Attempt was made to carry out terror act in Vilnius

Based on a case handed over to the court, a person is charged with an attempt to cause damage to another person's property, intimidate the public, cause a threat to the lives of many people and cause major damage to financial companies operating in Lithuania by carrying out a planned terror attack.

The pre-trial investigation was carried by officers from the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau in cooperation with the State Security Department.

The suspect is a Lithuanian man born in 1999. Based on the collected information, the suspect affiliates himself with the far-right extremist group Feuerkrieg Division and is suspected to have produced and kept powerful explosives and explosive materials for terrorist purposes.