About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/eb825d8bbb1da7b370b59294084c9a161e809ca475b81ef703a55faf     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • A German soldier will stand trial in May for allegedly plotting to carry out an attack targeting prominent politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee, a court in Frankfurt said Tuesday. The suspect identified only as Franco A., 32, stands accused of the "preparation of a serious act of violence that endangers the state", as well as illegally possessing weapons and explosives. Prosecutors said he pretended to be a Syrian refugee and successfully obtained asylum protection in December 2016 even though he speaks no Arabic. He took on the double identity because he hoped that "in the subsequent investigations (of the attack), suspicion would be diverted to asylum seekers in Germany," they added. The surreal alleged plot was uncovered at a time when Germany was bitterly divided over Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision in 2015 to let in more than a million asylum seekers. It also laid bare the chaos of an immigration system that was struggling to cope with the sudden jump in arrivals. Investigators believe that the targets of Franco A.'s planned attacks were then justice minister Heiko Maas, a deputy speaker of parliament, Claudia Roth, or a human rights activist. For his plan, Franco A. had secured a pistol that he hid in January 2017 in a toilet at Vienna's international airport. He is also accused of having taken munitions and explosives from the German armed forces. Franco A. was detained in February 2017 while seeking to retrieve the pistol from its hiding place at the Austrian airport, but released a day later. He was remanded in custody between April and November 2017, and has been free since pending trial. But the trial's opening was delayed by questions over which court was competent to hear the case. Frankfurt's higher regional court, which will hear the case, has now set hearing dates through the end of June. The trial comes after another high-profile case in which the Frankfurt court convicted a neo-Nazi of what is believed to be Germany's first political assassination by a right-wing extremist since World War II. Stephan Ernst, 47, was in January found guilty of shooting dead the lawmaker from Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party on June 1, 2019. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has declared far-right extremism the "biggest security threat facing Germany". He has promised tougher security measures, including a crackdown on online hate speech. hmn/dlc/gd
schema:headline
  • German soldier in 'racist attack plot' to be tried in May
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software