Neo-Nazis from Chmenitz and the surrounding area wanted the NSU to act like a "kindergarten preschool group" - now the court ruling has passed.
- The Dresden Higher Regional Court has ruled against neo-Nazis from Chemnitz .
- The process took place under high security precautions .
- According to Pamphlet , the group wanted the NSU to look like a “kindergarten pre-school group”.
Dresden - In the process of the right-wing extremist terrorist organization "Revolution Chemnitz" , the Dresden Higher Regional Court imposed prison terms between two years and three months and five and a half years. All eight defendants were convicted on Tuesday of membership in a terrorist organization * , and the ringleader was also convicted of founding them.
Revolution Chemnitz: Bundle of hooligans, skinheads and neo-Nazis
The federal attorneys general attested that the accused had an "openly Nazi attitude". The defenders demanded acquittals or milder punishments and considered the terrorist allegation to be completely excessive.
The group was founded in September 2018 while there were demonstrations and riots hostile to foreigners in Chemnitz. The background was the violent death of a 35-year-old German in a conflict with refugees on the edge of the Chemnitz city festival in late August. In 2019, a young Syrian man was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm.
According to the indictment, the “Revolution Chemnitz” was formed in a chat on September 10, 2018. The alleged ringleader, who received the highest sentence on Tuesday, put a kind of pamphlet in the chat . After reading, the seven co-defendants should decide whether or not to join. There was no contradiction, even if defense attorneys wanted to assert in the process that their clients had not taken the text seriously or did not understand it correctly.
Terror cell: Revolution Chemnitz wanted to strike on Unity Day
However, the document did not lack clarity. It was time to not only let words speak, but actions. "Leftists, parasites, Merkel zombies, the media dictatorship and their slaves" should be targeted - even with force of arms . The NSU * , on the other hand, should act like a "kindergarten preschool group" . An action was planned for October 3, 2018 in Berlin . The prosecution was convinced that an attempted overthrow should take place.
According to the indictment, the right-wing extremist “revolution” and “system change” were to be initiated with a symbolic event on the day of German unity on October 3, 2018. According to the prosecutors, the accused carried out a "trial run" on September 14, 2018 on the castle pond island in Chemnitz.
dpa / frs
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
