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Federal prosecutors took over the investigation because of the "special importance" of the case
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The federal prosecutor's office has brought charges against a student who is said to have planned a right-wing extremist attack at his high school in Essen.
She accuses the 17-year-old of preparing a serious act of violence that endangers the state, financing terrorism and violating the Weapons and Explosives Act, as the supreme prosecuting authority in Germany announced in Karlsruhe.
The "WAZ" reported about it first.
The investigators assume that the then 16-year-old wanted to cause a bloodbath on May 13 of this year at Essen's Don Bosco High School.
He had been arrested the day before after being informed by a classmate at his parents' home.
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office had taken over the investigation from the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor's Office because of the "special importance" of the case.
"Teachers and a large number of students should have been killed."
Crossbows, knives, machetes, air pistols and materials for pipe bombs
A decision by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in August states: “The accused’s firmly established racist attitude, his massive readiness to use violence and the effort he put into the crime over several years speak to a large extent for his harmful tendencies and the seriousness of the guilt. Among other things, police officers found crossbows, knives, machetes, air pressure pistols and materials for pipe bombs on the young person – “everything that is essential for the construction of an explosive device (...)”.
The youth worked out the details of the planned "massacre" in a diary and a "manifesto".
He wrote extensive instructions and recorded video messages for potential imitators.
The youth is in custody.
In prison, he said he "openly spoke to staff about his attack plan, his murderous fantasies, his hatred of foreigners" and his admiration for earlier right-wing extremist assassins and "has not yet refrained from doing so."
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