In the city of Stuttgart, the trial of members of the Egon Gruppe S began, who plotted a series of terrorist attacks against Jews and foreigners in the country. • 12 men, including a policeman, are on trial
Member of the terrorist cell that is on trial in Germany // Photo: AP
The city of Stuttgart opened yesterday (Tuesday) the trial of 12 men suspected of being members of the terrorist organization Gruppe s, an extreme right-wing organization that aims to overthrow the government in Germany by the country's degeneration into a full-blown civil war.
According to the indictments, 11 men are accused of planning a series of attacks against Jews, Muslims and other foreigners in Germany and another man, a police officer in the federal police, is accused of providing material assistance to members of the organization.
The attack on the synagogue in the city of Ella in 2019
According to the indictment, seven members of the organization met at a barbecue event in 2019, where they began planning the series of terrorist attacks.
The members of the organization recruited additional members, purchased automatic weapons, hand grenades and 27 other weapons of various types and 2,000 bullets.
"If the defendants had succeeded in carrying out the terrorist acts they planned, we would have faced a massive and brutal killing machine raging in our streets," Ralph Michalfelder, the chief criminal investigator of the state of Baden-Württemberg, said at a pre-trial press conference.
Several cases of nationalist and racist terrorism have occurred in recent years in Germany, including a shooting attack in which nine immigrants were killed in two cafes in the city of Hanau in 2020 and an attack on a synagogue in the city of Ella on Yom Kippur in 2019.