Free comradeship Dresden

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The Free Comradeship Dresden (FKD) is a criminal right-wing extremist organization in Saxony .

Background and foundation

The Free Comradeship Dresden was founded in July 2015 in the Grunaer Sportsbar Pfefferminze at a gathering of around 20 to 30 right-wing extremists. The members behave in a conspiratorial manner. According to the public prosecutor's office and the Saxony Cultural Office , the group was involved in riots and the like between July 2015 and January 2016 in changing compositions. a. in Heidenau (August 2015) and in Leipzig-Connewitz (January 2016). The FKD had attacked foreigners, refugee shelters and apartments of dissidents and a left-wing politician. Together with the right-wing terrorist group Freital , the FKD attacked the alternative housing project “Scarcity Economy” in Dresden-Übigau .

The comradeship is said to have been founded as a non-party group following the example of the “Free Forces Dresden”. The aim was to network right-wing radical actors in the Dresden area: "The main aim of this group is to bundle the national forces in and around Dresden in order to plan events together and as a closed group, to implement spontaneous actions in a targeted manner and to support other national alliances", (Error in the original) it was said in the group's self-image. According to the Dresden Cultural Office, the idea of ​​founding the FKD should have come from the then NPD politician René Despang , who himself became a member.

Deeds

On August 22, 2015, the leader of the group Benjamin Z., as well as Maik K., Michel K., Nick F. and Franz R. had participated in the organized riots in front of the initial reception center for refugees in Heidenau. During the trial, they were charged with throwing firecrackers, stones, bottles and construction site objects at police officers. At least nine other people attributable to the FKD should also have been present. More than 30 police officers were injured in the attacks.

At the same time as the xenophobic Legida movement was marching in downtown Leipzig, more than 250 neo-Nazis attacked the alternative-oriented Leipzig district of Connewitz on November 1, 2016, including the five FKD members mentioned. Three people were injured and numerous cars and buildings were damaged; the property damage is around 120,000 euros. A call to come to Leipzig was published on the FKD's Facebook page four days before the attack.

At the end of February 2016, the FKD formally dissolved, allegedly because of internal disputes and arrests. After that, on August 20 and 21, 2016, around 20 to 30 masked people deliberately “hunted refugees” at the Dresden city festival . Several people were injured, some seriously. In addition to the FKD member Robert S. Maik K. and Benjamin Z. are said to have been among the attackers.

process

The Regional Court Dresden negotiated from September 2017 against five men and one woman, then aged 22 and 29 years partly because of criminal association , aggravated assault, breach of the peace and inducing explosives explosions. The imprisoned alleged leader of the FKD is said to have tried out of prison to influence his court proceedings and to have had an affair with a lay judge.

The Dresden Regional Court sentenced the defendants to juvenile sentences in August 2018, among other things for membership in a criminal organization. On May 13, 2019, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected the defendants' appeals.

In January 2020, the Dresden Regional Court passed the final judgments against six members of the far-right Freie Kameradschaft Dresden (FKD). The crimes ranged from participation in a criminal organization, serious breach of the peace, dangerous bodily harm to causing explosives. The leader Benjamin Z. was sentenced to four years and four months in prison, the other five men and one woman to terms of between two years and ten months and six years.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c raid on alleged members of the "Free Comradeship Dresden" . In: Saxon newspaper . ( online at sächsische.de [accessed December 14, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Monitorium 1. Kulturbüro Sachsen, 2018, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Alexander Schneider: Half-hearted confessions . In: Saxon newspaper . ( online at sächsische.de [accessed December 14, 2018]).
  4. ^ A b c Johann Stephanowitz, dpa, AFP: "Free Comradeship Dresden": Dresden Regional Court imposes prison sentences against right-wing extremists . In: The time . January 17, 2020, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 24, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Manipulation and an alleged affair: Trial of “Freie Kameradschaft Dresden” at risk. In: Dresdner Latest news online. November 7, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Relationship of a lay judge to a defendant in the "Freie Kameradschaft Dresden" trial confirmed. In: exactly . Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, November 8, 2018, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ BGH, press release: Judgment on membership in the "Free Comradeship Dresden" final. Retrieved on May 13, 2019 (German).