News which is dominating the Munich press this week is the trial of 5 young neo-nazis. Last November the 'Southern Comrades' attempted to terrorise the opening ceremony of the new Jewish center on Jakobsplatz. They planned to detonate over a kilo of TNT at the site. The ceremony was attended by Johannes Rau, the then German President. The grand aim of the Nazi terrorists was to topple the national government. ...
Neo Nazi paraphernalia siezed in Munich in 2003
The 'Southern Comrades':
Last year a group of Bavarian neo-Nazis, calling themselves the 'Kameradschaft Süd' (Southern Comrades), attempted to terrorise the opening of the new Jewish center on Munich's Jakobsplatz. The opening ceremony took place on 9th November 2003. This was a significant date as it was the 65th anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazi gangs burned down synagogues and smashed the windows of Jewish shops and businesses. The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by then German President Johannes Rau. The neo-Nazis had planned to detonate over a kilo of TNT, hidden within the building site. This was to be the first stage in a grand plan to topple the German government. After a tip-off to the police, however, the terror gang were captured in September 2003 and the plot was foiled.
The trial is said to one of Germany's highest-profile cases since extremists from the Red Army Faction appeared in the dock in the 1980's. It is also the first time that neo-nazis have ever faced terrorism charges in Germany.
If you read German, the Süddeutsche Zeitung has a special feature on this trial and on the state of neo-nazism in Germany.
Page created: 8.Oct.2004 - EditOf course the Neonazi headlines sell better, and beckstein could have raised the water temperature to boil us frogs in by a notch or two...
Zweifel an Anschlagsplänen der "Kameradschaft Süd"
27. Apr 2004 14:01
Die Polizei geht davon aus, dass die Rechtsradikalen in München harmloser waren, als sie selbst vorgeben. Mit ihrem Sprengstoff hätten sie nur Sachschaden anrichten können, sagt ein Ermittler.
Einer der Ermittler sagte der «Süddeutschen Zeitung», mit dem Sprengstoff, den die Rechtsradikalen in Polen besorgt hätte, «hätten sie allenfalls Sachschaden auf der Baustelle (der Synagoge) in der Innenstadt anrichten können».
Bei den Rechtsradikalen hatte die Polizei 1,7 Kilogramm TNT gefunden, zudem etwa 12 Kilogramm Sprengstoff, der aus Handgranaten aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zusammengekratzt wurde. Die Polizei ist skeptisch, ob die Rechtsradikalen daraus eine größere Bombe hätten bauen können. «Uns stellt es sich jedenfalls so dar, dass die Gruppe schon aufgrund ihrer mangelnden Kenntnis um das Sprengmaterial lediglich etwas hätte kaputt machen können», sagt der Münchner Ermittler.
Posted by: Beckstein at October 9, 2004 01:59 AM