Movement morning light

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Between October 31, 2009 and February 5, 2010, seven arson attacks were carried out on Frankfurt banks under the name “Movement Morning Light” , a dummy bomb was sent to the Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch and further attacks were threatened. The lone perpetrator Thomas Richter was arrested in February 2010, was sentenced to 4 years and 10 months in prison in October 2010 and died in December 2014.

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The goals were unspecified economic reforms that were to be brought about by attacks (e.g. arson attacks). The movement expressed itself as an opponent of the market economy and declared war on “anti-social companies”. The Frankfurt public prosecutor's office did not rule out copycat effects and free riders, the Hesse State Criminal Police Office feared that a terrorist group similar to the revolutionary cells could arise.

Attacks and reconnaissance

On November 2, 2009, two arson attacks were carried out on bank branches in Frankfurt. Around 1 a.m., the window of a Dresdner Bank branch was smashed and a rag soaked with gasoline was thrown into it. Property damage of € 10,000 resulted, and residents had to be evacuated due to the high smoke development. The following night, around 1:20 a.m. in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, an incendiary bomb consisting of a spray can filled with butane gas was detonated in a branch of the Deutsche Bank . Apartments in the house and a butcher's shop were damaged. There was property damage of € 100,000. An attack on the Sparkasse in 1822 was announced. In January 2010, several letters of confession were sent in connection with a dummy bomb in the form of a non-explosive pipe bomb addressed to Roland Koch . It threatened to detonate a real bomb in his environment if Koch stuck to his statements about a stronger duty of ALG-II recipients to work. In February 2010 there was a letter confessing to an arson attack on a branch of the temporary employment agency Randstad , the authorship of another attack on a Schlecker branch is seen in connection by the police authorities.

On February 22, 2010, an arrest warrant was issued against Thomas Richter, who was exposed through video recordings at two crime scenes and an internet café. In July 2010 charges were brought against him before the Frankfurt am Main regional court . The trial began on September 23, 2010, and on October 20, 2010, he was sentenced to 4 years and 10 months in prison for aggravated arson and disturbance of the public peace . He was released earlier from prison because of his disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Richter died on December 22, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main.

Letters of responsibility and texts

The press compared the style of confession letters and contacts with the media with those of the Red Army Faction . In 2009 the young world commented on the texts published on the Internet as "weird stuff". The Financial Times Deutschland drew parallels to the RAF and stated that after the first two attacks “no fewer than four letters of confession were received by various Frankfurt media” and described the manifesto as “confused”. Der Spiegel also cited the increase in left-wing property damage in Berlin .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on Heute.at from November 16, 2009 (accessed on November 21, 2009)
  2. ↑ Police investigate “Morgenlicht” ( memento from February 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurter Rundschau from February 6, 2010
  3. ↑ a b Two arson attacks on bank branches, in: FAZ online (accessed on November 21, 2009)
  4. ↑ Fourth letter of confession received, in: Frankfurter Rundschau online (accessed on November 21, 2009) ( Memento of November 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c attacks in Frankfurt: "we work with fire extinguishers", in: FTD online from November 12, 2009 (accessed on November 21, 2009) ( Memento from November 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Bomb dummy for Prime Minister Koch, according to DPA of January 23, 2010 Documented in: direct action news from Germany (accessed on January 24, 2010)
  7. ^ Militants threaten Roland Koch ( Memento from January 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Frankfurter Rundschau from January 22, 2010
  8. ↑ Opponents of Koch send a dummy bomb to Spiegel Online from January 22, 2010
  9. ^ Attack on Randstad ( Memento from February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), article in the Frankfurter Rundschau from February 1, 2010
  10. ↑ Unknown people want to set fire to drugstore ( Memento from February 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurter Rundschau from February 5, 2010
  11. ↑ Video recordings reveal 49-year-olds ( Memento from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurter Rundschau from February 24, 2010
  12. ↑ Unemployed academic acted out of frustration
  13. ↑ “Movement morning light” threatened Roland Koch Stern.de on February 24, 2010
  14. ↑ Morning light process on the horizon: in fr-online from July 17, 2010
  15. ^ Against banks, cars, cooks: in fr-online from September 22, 2010
  16. ^ An unusual criminal: in fr-online of September 23, 2010
  17. ^ Off for morning light: in fr-online from October 21, 2010
  18. ↑ Capitalism fought and failed fr-online.de of February 15, 2014
  19. ↑ Morning light movement: To be more than yourself
  20. ↑ Image online from November 15, 2009 (accessed November 21, 2009)
  21. ^ Reform movement of the day: movement morgenlicht, in: Junge Welt from November 13, 2009 (accessed on November 21, 2009)
  22. ^ New Militant Group Torches Cash Machines in Frankfurt, in: Spiegel online International from November 12, 2009 (accessed November 21, 2009)