Correspondent in Berlin
A Bundeswehr officer suspected of preparing terrorist acts, identity theft and illegal possession of weapons: these are the three charges that weigh on the shoulders of Franco Albrecht, including the trial, the most resounding of the year, is due to begin Thursday in court in Frankfurt.
This former Saint-Cyr graduate, assigned to the Franco-German brigade in Illkirch in the rank of lieutenant, told
Le Figaro
at length
how he passed himself off, in 2016, as a false Syrian asylum seeker with the aim of to denounce the incompetence of the immigration services.
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During his arrest in 2017, the Minister of Defense at the time had erected the young man, then aged 27, as a symbol of an army gangrened by the extreme right.
Participating in discussion groups led by neo-Nazi activists, Franco Albrecht is suspected of planning attacks against German politicians and hiding a pistol
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