Maik Schneider

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Maik Schneider (* 1987 ) is a German educator and politician ( NPD ). He was a member of the city ​​council of Nauen and the district council of the Havelland district . In February 2017, he was sentenced to prison for arson .

Life

Maik Schneider completed training as an educator. From 2013 he attended the "Heinrich von Kleist" school in Potsdam and made up his Abitur there, which he had to break off and did not finish due to his arrest.

politics

In 2008 Schneider was elected a member of the Havelland district council and the Nauen city council. In the district council he was next to Dieter Brose the second NPD member.

He cultivated connections to the free comradeship scene in Brandenburg and was himself active for the neo-Nazi group “Free Forces Neuruppin / Osthavelland”; At times he moved in the environment of the Kampfbund Deutsche Sozialisten (KDS). In addition, he maintained contacts with the “ Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend ” (HDJ). Schneider's apartment was searched as part of the ban proceedings against the neo-Nazi youth organization.

In 2013, Schneider was elected as a direct candidate for the 2013 federal election for constituency 60 (Brandenburg / Havel, Potsdam-Mittelmark I, Havelland III, Teltow-Fläming I) .

Since 2015 he has been raising the mood against the planned refugee accommodation in Nauen in the city council and has registered numerous anti-asylum demonstrations. These demonstrations ended after the gym was burned down.

Right-wing extremist group in Nauen

Schneider is considered to be the leader of a group of right-wing extremists in Nauen that targeted political opponents with attacks. The Potsdam Public Prosecutor attributed a series of attacks with a political and xenophobic background to the group. According to the prosecutor, the group had attacked the left party office in Nauen several times . She had also carried out an arson attack on the car of a couple of politicians on the Havelland left. In April 2015, the tires of a car belonging to a youth association that works for refugees were stabbed and a threatening letter was left. In mid-February 2016, neo-Nazi activists in Nauen openly called for the use of explosives against refugees on handouts. In the two-page letter they called for "absolute resistance" to the "invasion of foreigners" and gave tips on building Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs, as well as instructions on how to make plastic explosives .

Arson attack in 2015

In August 2015, an arson attack was carried out on the sports hall of an upper school center in Nauen . The hall burned down completely. Nobody got hurt; the property damage was estimated at 3.5 million euros. The hall was intended as temporary refugee accommodation.

Through the extensive confessions of co-defendants, the investigators became aware of Maik Schneider as the mastermind behind the arson attack. In February 2017, the Potsdam Regional Court sentenced Schneider to a total prison sentence of nine years and six months for arson, property damage and other offenses. Schneider had confessed to the act during the process. The presiding judge stated in his judgment that Schneider and his accomplices had clearly acted out of xenophobic and right-wing extremist motives. Schneider's defenders put revision in federal court one. This overturned the judgment in March 2018 and referred the case back to another criminal chamber of the regional court for re-trial, as the court wrongly rejected a request for rejection filed by the accused against a lay judge on the grounds of forfeiture. The jury concerned is said to have interrupted the accused during the main hearing when he was reading his statement with the words: "Do you imagine that someone believes the nonsense you are saying ?" , Which, in the opinion of the Federal Court of Justice, despite a subsequent apology from the Aldermen justified the concern of bias .

Because there were several avoidable delays in the proceedings, the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court decided in January 2019 to release him from custody. He had been in custody since March 2016.

On October 2, 2019, the Potsdam Regional Court sentenced him to seven years and nine months imprisonment for arson and one year and four months imprisonment for another crime (attempted coercion). As after the last conviction, his defense lawyer appealed against the verdict.

In January 2020 it was reported that the "Ostdeutsche Kommunalversicherung" is demanding almost 2.9 million euros in damages from Maik Schneider and an accomplice who has already been convicted and is suing this claim under civil law at the Potsdam Regional Court.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ These are the suspects from Nauen. In: Inforiot.de. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Neo-Nazi cell in Nauen: series of attacks cleared up. In: Malfunction reporter . March 4, 2016, accessed February 10, 2017 .
  3. ^ Right-wing extremism: Neo-Nazi cell is said to be responsible for attacks in Nauen. In: The time. March 4, 2016, accessed February 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Attack on the refugee home: NPD politicians sentenced to long imprisonment. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Brandenburg: The arson attack in Nauen must be reopened - Tagesspiegel.de
  6. ↑ Federal Court of Justice overturns judgment against neo-Nazi on sueddeutsche.de; accessed: June 24, 2018
  7. ^ BGH: Decision of the 3rd Criminal Senate of 6.3.2018 - 3 StR 559/17 on bundesgerichtshof.de; accessed: June 24, 2018
  8. ↑ https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2019/01/entlassung-haft-npd-politiker-maik-schneider.htm/alt=amp.html
  9. ↑ https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2019/10/maik-schneider-nauen-turnhalle-erneut-veretzungt.html
  10. ↑ https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2019/10/turnhallenbrand-nauen-maik-schneider-revision.html
  11. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/aktuelles/brandenburg/6035962-5173360-zivilprocess-um-nauener-brandanschlag-st.html
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Maik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1987