Düsseldorf cell

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A group of three alleged al-Qaida members and one other man who is said to have acted as a supporter of their terrorist organization is referred to as the Düsseldorf cell . Three of them were arrested on April 29, 2011 following information from the US foreign secret service NSA and a phase of official surveillance by the GSG 9 of the federal police in their apartments at Witzelstrasse 24 in Düsseldorf - Bilk and in the Hustadt von Bochum - Querenburg , the fourth Mann was later caught. The group is said to have planned to cause a massacre through an bomb attack . Her trial was brought before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court from July 25, 2012 to November 13, 2014 .

arrest

According to Hans-Georg Maaßen , then President of the BfV, the plans were uncovered by the US National Security Agency (NSA) with the PRISM surveillance program . The Federal Criminal Police Office set up the "Komet" special commission, tapping telephones, installing eavesdropping devices in apartments and Trojan horses on computers and reading suspects ' emails .

The four men were between 21 and 32 years old in the year the trial began. The head of the group was Abdeladim el-K., Born in Morocco, who studied mechatronics in Bochum in 2001 and was forcibly de-registered in 2009 . According to the investigation, he was said to have been in an al-Qaeda training camp in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan from January 2010 and returned to Germany in May 2010. The other three accused were the German-Moroccan electrician Jamil S., the German-Iranian high school student Amid C., who passed his Abitur while in custody, and the student Halil S., who studied mechanical engineering in Bochum . The main defendant, the electrician and the high school student were arrested on April 29, 2011; the identity of the fourth man, the mechanical engineering student Halil S., was not yet known at the time. He was caught on December 8, 2011 by the GSG 9 of the Federal Police in his dormitory in Bochum.

First instance proceedings

The federal prosecutor's office accused the four defendants of planning a “sensational terrorist attack” in Germany. According to the indictment , which was also based on utensils seized in the Düsseldorf apartment, they wanted to "detonate an explosive device with splinter effect in a large crowd"; after the arrival of rescue workers, a second bomb should be detonated.

In his judgment of November 13, 2014, the main defendant was Abdeladim el-K. A prison sentence of nine years for membership in a terrorist organization and preparation of a criminal offense threatening the state. Jamil S. was also sentenced to seven years and Amid C. to five and a half years for membership in a terrorist organization. The fourth defendant, Halil S., received a total imprisonment of four and a half years for, among other things, supporting a terrorist organization. Since Amid C. and Halil S. had already spent most of their sentences in custody, they were released under certain conditions after the verdict was announced.

The court hearings for the state security proceedings , which took place in a high-security building of the Higher Regional Court, lasted 163 days and thus - apart from the NSU trial - formed the longest and most costly “terrorist trial ” in Germany to date.

Second instance

The judgments are not yet final. The defense lawyers of the four defendants have appealed. The defense was taken over by the lawyer Boos and the lawyers Potzler and Pausch for the defendant El-K., The lawyers Strittmatter and Hagmann for the defendant Jamil S .; Attorney Eisel and Attorney Dr. Lederer for the defendant Amid C., the lawyers Jäger and Weckmüller for the defendant Halil S.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Terror arrest in Bochum's Hustadt. , Article from May 2, 2011 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on August 10, 2013
  3. ↑ Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court: No. 20/2012 "Düsseldorfer cell": Trial begins on July 25, 2012. In: www.olg-duesseldorf.nrw.de. Retrieved June 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Helene Bubrowski: manhunt success thanks to the NSA . In: faz.net of July 27, 2013, accessed on August 5, 2013
  5. ↑ a b Bomb builders on a shopping spree in the hardware store , Welt online from November 15, 2012, accessed on August 5, 2013
  6. ↑ Jörg Diehl: Düsseldorfer Qaida-Prozess: Dienstreise zum Terrorscheik , Spiegel Online from July 23, 2013, accessed on August 5, 2013
  7. ↑ Prism causes a stir in the Al Qaeda process . Article from July 23, 2013 in the portal berliner-zeitung.de , accessed on August 10, 2013
  8. ↑ a b c d e Wolf Schmidt: The hexamine was missing in the grill lighter , taz online from July 21, 2012, accessed on August 5, 2013
  9. ↑ “Brothers, let's finish our work!” Article dated December 8, 2011 in the welt.de portal , accessed on August 10, 2013
  10. ↑ Bomb laboratory between toothpaste and toilet paper. Article from May 15, 2012 in the portal sueddeutsche.de , accessed on August 10, 2013
  11. ↑ a b Düsseldorfer cell allegedly had ex-KSK boss in their sights  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Agence France-Presse of August 2, 2012, accessed August 5, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.afp.com  
  12. ↑ Terrorism: Long prison terms in the trial of al-Qaida supporters . Article from November 13, 2014 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on December 11, 2015
  13. ↑ Al Qaeda supporters sentenced to long prison terms . Article from November 13, 2014 in the portal handelsblatt.com , accessed on December 11, 2015
  14. ^ Judgment in the Al-Qaeda trial about the "Düsseldorfer cell" . Article from April 13, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on December 11, 2015
  15. ^ Düsseldorf al-Qaeda cell: appeal before the Federal Court of Justice. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. November 17, 2014, accessed June 16, 2016 .