From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
4 charged over German anti-migrant ‘terror’ group
German prosecutors say Wednesday they have charged four people with forming a right-wing extremist “terror” group which was allegedly planning a bomb attack at a refugee shelter.
The suspects are accused of starting a “far-right terrorist organization” called Oldschool Society with a larger group of people in 2014.
Germany has recorded a sharp jump in crime attributed to the far-right in tandem with the surge in asylum seeker arrivals which reached 1.1 million last year.
At its first meeting in November 2014, the group allegedly “discussed the manufacturing of explosives as well as attacks on Salafists and asylum seekers,” federal prosecutors say in a statement.
By May 2015, when they were arrested, they had hatched a plan “for a bomb attack at an inhabited refugee shelter.”
— AFP
The Times of Israel Community.