8 Germans on trial for allegedly forming far-right group
Source: Associated Press
Updated 9:12 am, Tuesday, March 7, 2017
BERLIN (AP) — Eight Germans went on trial Tuesday in the city of Dresden for allegedly forming a far-right terrorist organization and carrying out bombing attacks on asylum-seeker facilities and left-wing political targets.
Prosecutors have accused the defendants — seven men and one woman between the ages of 19 and 39 — of forming the "Freital Group," named after a Dresden suburb that has seen a number of anti-refugee protests and attacks.
The group is alleged to have carried out several attacks, including blowing up the car of a Left party politician and a Left party office in Freital, as well the two bombings of refugee homes in which windows were blown out and one asylum-seeker suffered facial cuts.
The suspects, who all have been in custody since April 2016, also are suspected of using powerful firecrackers from the Czech Republic that are banned in Germany to make pipe bombs and other improvised explosive devices, prosecutors said.
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