A 17-year-old is said to have planned a right-wing extremist attack at his high school in Essen. The federal prosecutor’s office accuses the student of preparing a serious act of violence that endangers the state, terrorist financing and violations of the Weapons and Explosives Act, as the supreme prosecutor in Germany announced on Tuesday in Karlsruhe.
The State Protection Senate at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court must decide whether to allow the indictment. The “WAZ” reported about it first. The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office had taken over the investigation from the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office because of the “special importance” of the case. “Teachers and a large number of students should have been killed.”
The investigators assume that the then 16-year-old wanted to cause a bloodbath on May 13 of this year at Essen’s Don Bosco High School. He had been arrested the day before after being informed by a classmate at his parents’ home.
The youth worked out the details of the planned “massacre” in a diary and a “manifesto”. He wrote extensive instructions for imitators and recorded video messages. In prison, he spoke to staff “openly about his attack plan, his murderous fantasies, his hatred of foreigners” and his admiration for earlier right-wing extremist assassins and “has not refrained from doing so until now”.
A decision by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in August states: “The accused’s firmly established racist attitude, his massive readiness to use violence and the effort he put into the crime over several years speak to a large extent for his harmful tendencies and the seriousness of the guilt. “
Among other things, police officers found crossbows, knives, machetes, air pressure pistols and materials for pipe bombs on the German – “everything that is essential for the construction of an explosive device (…)”.
