The warehouse that burned down on Friday in the Czech Republic city of Pardubice is owned by LPP Holding, a company that produces and supplies aviation electronics and drones to Ukraine.
The Czech News Agency reported this, saying: "LPP Holding includes technology enterprises that produce products for the military and civilian sectors. This holding company specializes, for example, in the production of unmanned systems supplied to Ukraine, as well as equipment for ground forces, avionics systems, equipment for facial and object recognition using artificial intelligence, as well as railway transport equipment."
Czech authorities are investigating a fire at an arms depot linked to Israel amid suspicions of a "terrorist attack".
The agency noted that a fire on Friday engulfed one of the company's warehouses. It also reported that the fire affected production at Archer-LPP, a subsidiary of LPP Holding, which supplies optical systems such as thermal imaging and night-vision equipment to Ukrainian forces, among other things.
According to Aktuálně.cz, The Earthquake Faction claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that it had planned to attack a site that produces weapons for Israel.
Several years ago, LPP Holding announced its intention to develop and manufacture unmanned systems at its Pardubice plant in collaboration with the Israeli company Elbit Systems. However, this collaboration did not come to fruition, company spokeswoman Martina Taubrova told reporters.
Czech Interior Minister Lubomír Metnar declared the fire an act of terrorism. Police representatives, experts from the Institute of Forensic Medicine and the National Center for Countering Terrorism, Extremism, and Cybercrime, as well as military intelligence, are involved in determining the cause of the fire.
