Bernhard Falk (Islamist)

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Bernhard Falk, 2014

Bernhard Falk (also Bernhard Uzun or Muntasir bi-llah ; * 1967 ) is a German Islamist and former left-wing extremist terrorist . Falk was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for fourfold attempted murder and explosives crimes.

Life

Bernhard Falk is the son of a teacher. In 1986 he passed the Abitur at the Wolfgang-Borchert-Gymnasium in Halstenbek and studied physics at the RWTH Aachen .

Falk was a member of the left-wing extremist terror group Anti-Imperialist Cells (AIZ). In 1994 he was sentenced to imprisonment by the Aachen Regional Court for property damage . After several explosive attacks in the early 1990s, he and his former fellow student Michael Steinau were arrested on February 26, 1996 in Witzhave near Hamburg. They were charged with planning an assassination attempt against the SPD parliamentarian Freimut Duve . Falk was convicted with movement profiles of his car that had been obtained through GPS monitoring . The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court sentenced both of them to long imprisonment in 1999, Falk was sentenced to 13 years in prison for fourfold attempted murder and various explosive crimes . The judgment was upheld by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2004 .

Falk converted to Sunni Islam before he was imprisoned and called himself Bernhard Uzun. He has lived in Dortmund since his release in 2008 and moves under the name Muntasir bi-llah in Salafist circles. In 2012 he published a document threatening violence against the US military airfield at Ramstein Air Base . The Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia determined. The Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice reported to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in September 2014 that Falk was providing "prison aid" for terrorist Islamists; one of his topics of conversation in this context was the liberation of prisoners .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masters in Shaking . In: Der Spiegel , 10/1996
  2. ↑ pnn.de
  3. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ Jürgen Marks: bomby buddies . In: Focus . November 17, 1997.
  5. ↑ Male cocky . In: Der Spiegel . June 24, 1996.
  6. ↑ GPS monitoring of criminals is legal . In: Stern. April 12, 2005.
  7. ↑ Alfred Hackensberger: Bernhard Falk: From the left-wing terrorist to the German face of al-Qaeda in Die Welt from May 25, 2015
  8. ^ Karlsruhe approves surveillance from space. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 19, 2010.
  9. ↑ Florian Flade: The Salafist who photographed the Chancellery. In: The world . September 27, 2013.
  10. ↑ Islamist from Dortmund threatens religious war . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . June 9, 2012.
  11. ^ Sebastian Weiermann: Where Islamists suspected of terrorism can find help. Article from September 22, 2014 in the portal ruhrbarone.de , accessed on September 22, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Falk, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uzun, Bernhard; Bi-llah, Muntasir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Islamist and left-wing extremist terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967