In the trial against the Bundeswehr officer Franco A., who is suspected of terrorism, a witness testifies before the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court (OLG) today. It is about a weapon that the defendant hid in a toilet at Vienna Airport. The officer was arrested when he took the pistol from its hiding place in February 2017. What A. intended to do with the weapon is still unclear.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office accuses Franco A. of preparing a serious criminal offense that is dangerous to the state. He is said to have planned attacks on politicians. The officer assumed a false identity as a Syrian refugee – from the point of view of the prosecutors, in order to raise suspicions of an attack against refugees and to shake confidence in the asylum policy. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office sees a völkisch-nationalist attitude as a motive.
Franco A. largely denies the allegations, but admits that he was in possession of several weapons, which he kept at his place of work, among other things. So far he has not wanted to give any information about the whereabouts of the weapons.
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