Raid in a case against the "revolutionary action cells" in a house in Magdeburg (2013)
Photo: Matthias Strauss / dpa
In the process of threatening letters and arson attacks by the "revolutionary action cells", new details about the accused become known.
Accordingly, the alleged left-wing extremist Martin E. was earlier - under other names - in the neo-Nazi scene.
According to SPIEGEL research, the now 39-year-old once acted as the press spokesman for the right-wing extremist "Citizens' Initiative Foreigners Stop" in Munich, was a candidate for the NPD in the state parliament and worked for its party newspaper "German Voice", as well as head of the national Witikobund in Baden-Württemberg.
E. was apparently also active in the environment of radical Christian fundamentalists.
In 2009 Martin E. is said to have broken with the right-wing extremist scene and participated in a dropout program.
Most recently, E. was active in local politics in Stuttgart for a left parliamentary alliance and belonged to the ÖDP, a small eco-party, which excluded him after the allegations became known.
E. is currently standing with a woman before the Stuttgart district court;
he is charged with attempted arson, coercion and dating.
Together with his alleged accomplice, he is said to have sent threatening letters to numerous politicians and top officials.
Some of the letters came with 9 millimeter caliber irritant cartridges.
The addressees included Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU), Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), several state interior ministers and head of the protection of the Constitution Thomas Haldenwang.
Incendiary in front of the Tönnies property
In addition, Martin E. is said to have been involved in an attempted arson attack on the headquarters of the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg in 2020 and deposited an incendiary device in front of the property of the meat manufacturer Clemens Tönnies. Corresponding letters of confession were marked with "Revolutionary Action Cells" (RAZ) or "Militant Cell" (MIEZE); the Tönnies action was "dedicated" to suspected ex-RAF terrorists in hiding.
Initially, the federal prosecutor's office investigated the case on suspicion of the formation of a terrorist group.
At that time, the investigators checked whether the RAZ was a start-up or a second generation of the left-wing extremist group of the same name that had been involved in several incendiary and explosive attacks in Berlin since 2009 and in 2011 to send a pistol cartridge to the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Hans-Peter Friedrich ( CSU) had known.
When it became clear that there were apparently only two individuals behind "RAZ" and "MIEZE", the Attorney General handed the case over to the Stuttgart Public Prosecutor.
She had Martin E. and his alleged accomplice arrested in Berlin at the end of October.
In March, charges were brought against the two, and hearings are taking place in the 9th Large Criminal Chamber of the Stuttgart Regional Court.
E.'s two defense lawyers refused to comment on the prosecutor's allegations or on their client's past when asked.
