Berlin; 12 Nov 2020 (UMMN): 12 members of a German right-wing Whitist terrorist group, one of them police staff, have been charged for plotting Christchurch like attack on mosques to kill or injure as many worshipers as possible.
The men aimed to “create conditions similar to civil war by attacks on mosques and killing or injuring of the largest possible number of Muslim believers present,” said a spokesperson for the Federal Prosecutor's Office on Thursday.
They said that 11 alleged members of the “Group S” organization and one alleged supporter held several meetings and proposed to raise €50,000 ($59,000) in order to “procure firearms.”
Prosecutors added that the aim of the group’s founding members was to “shake the state and social order of the Federal Republic of Germany and ultimately to overcome it.”
According to RT, the charges for the 12 German nationals include founding and membership of a right-wing terrorist association, and violations of the Weapons Act. All the suspects were arrested on February 14, apart from one man who remains “at large” in the southeastern city of Stuttgart.
One of the men was reportedly in possession of footage of the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019, in which 51 people died.
Germany has been hit by several right-wing terrorist attacks on minorities in recent years, including the murders of ethnic Turks by the so-called National Socialist Underground, who were convicted in 2018, reported RT.
