In the chat group, they gave themselves confident. Their goal was clearly defined: to pull together, to make a difference, to change the history of Germany. And for them it was clear: It will not go without violence. The "National Socialist Underground" (NSU), which killed ten people, would look like a kindergarten pre-school group compared to them. Thus, ringleader Christian K. wrote to his buddies, with whom he now sits in the high security wing of the Higher Regional Court of Dresden in the dock. They are said to have founded the terrorist organization "Revolution Chemnitz" after the death of Daniel Hillig on the outskirts of the Chemnitz City Festival in late August 2018 and planned the overthrow of the democratic order with weapons.
In court, self-assurance seems to have vanished. He did not intend to kill people, asserts defendant Tom W. He is not a terrorist either. But he did not want to deny a National Socialist attitude. Everything else would make no sense: Tom W., 31, has tattooed on his shaved skull the word "skinhead", he was leader of the banned right-wing extremist camaraderie Sturm 34, which wanted to clean the land of "aliens" according to prohibition decision. In his party cellar there is a room-high swastika.
In the chat, ringleader Christian K .: wrote: "Each one of us has been in the scene long enough (hooligan, skinhead, neo-Nazi, member of a terrorist group) to gain different experiences and build up special skills, which we use and can move worlds like that. " Tom W. does not want to read that very well. Alone in his chat group with other "car drivers" he got a few thousand messages on some days, he would not have come to work if he had read all the entries.
He does not want to have initiated anyone
Even the defendant Sten E. wants to have heard nothing in the chat. "I'm not the big reader," says the 29-year-old, who wears a swastika tattoo on his right thigh. He should recruit people for the planned revolution. In truth, he had "only made a fool of himself", pretended to all, he knows many from the right scene of Dresden. But he did not initiate anyone. "I was more of a little follower." When the chat was about weapons too, "my ass was gone".
Here, Sten E., like Tom W., several times convicted of dangerous bodily injury. Preference was given to "Red Boxing", as on 14 September last year, the alleged "test run" for the Great Revolution on 3 October in Berlin.
After a demonstration of the movement "Pro Chemnitz" they expected, according to Sten E. 150 Antifa pendant from Hamburg in Chemnitz, they met at a supermarket for a few beers and then moved to the island in the castle pond, where they suspected the political opponents. There they threatened a birthday party and attacked "foreigners" - "Kanaken said in good German," as Sten E. says.
What exactly should be "rehearsed", the chairman wants to know Hans Schlüter state. No idea, actually he did not know what had been planned, says Sten E. Also not on 3 October in Berlin. Berlin would have been "way too far" anyway. Actually, he wrote "all that" just to "present himself well".
So everything that he wrote in chats or delivered as a voice message was therefore exaggerated and false, states the representative of the Federal Prosecutor, Michael Glaser, and raises the questioning eyebrows. "Yes," says Sten E.
Photo of an SS leader
It's a tough, unbelievable spectacle that the two neo-Nazis will deliver in court on Tuesday and Wednesday. The chats and voice messages quoted by Glaser contradict the statements Sten It, he had no idea which political turn ringleader Christian K. allegedly wanted to push.
On the contrary, it becomes clear on these two days of the trial how great hatred, how deep-rooted the right thought must have been. This is also the subject of questions from sergeant Kristin Pietrzyk, who represents an Iranian who was injured while raiding the castle pond. It projects images captured on Sten Es mobile to the wall. The defendant admits to having searched the pictures on the Internet, because he found them and the ideology behind "cool".
Among them are pictures of SS leader Erich Priebke, the right-wing hooligan band "Category C", "Skrewdriver", one of the founding bands of the far-right network Blood and Honor, and a picture of the militant neo-Nazi organization Combat 18, the "armed arm" from Blood and Honor.
On Pietrzyks question, whether he is set politically right, answers Sten E .: "What is right? Slightly right."