Bavaria: right-wing extremist charged with allegedly planned arson attacks

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The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office intervenes in state security offenses

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A right-wing extremist from Bavaria is said to have prepared an arson attack on public officials or Muslims.

In a summary of the indictment, the Federal Prosecutor announced that she spied out police officers and a Franconian elected representative as possible victims last summer.

The woman was arrested in September and has been in custody ever since.

At that time, however, the responsibility was still with the Nuremberg-Fürth public prosecutor, later the Federal Prosecutor had intervened.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office takes on cases when it comes to the prosecution of serious criminal offenses that are dangerous to the state.

The woman represents "a basic attitude characterized by right-wing extremism and xenophobia," it says in the statement by the prosecutors.

According to this, she had already procured materials for the construction of incendiary devices such as gasoline, gas cartridges and fuses.

Between December 2019 and March 2020 she is also said to have sent six anonymous threatening letters to various recipients, which would have contained "the serious announcement of homicides".

In addition, she is said to have enclosed live pistol cartridges in five letters in order to "give even more emphasis to the threats."

The trial is to take place at the Munich Higher Regional Court.

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