Explosives attacks in Dresden in 2016

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The Fatih Camii
Traces of the attack on the entrance door of the mosque

The bomb attacks in Dresden in 2016 were two bomb attacks on the evening of September 26, 2016. These took place in Dresden in front of the Fatih Mosque and in front of the Congress Center (ICC). No person was harmed by accident. The soon-to-be determined perpetrator Nino Köhler was on August 31, 2018 because of u. a. Sentenced to 9 years and 8 months in prison for attempted murder.

Course of events

At about 21:15 CEST an explosive device exploded in front of the Fatih Mosque ⊙ in Dresden's Cotta district . According to the Dresden Higher Regional Court, this was filled with metal splinters that were capable of “causing the most serious and fatal injuries”. The mosque is an institution of the Turkish-Islamic religious community DITIB . The mosque's imam , his wife and sons were in the house when the explosion occurred, but they were unharmed. The front door was pushed inwards by the pressure wave from the explosion of this explosive device. The Saxony police later found remains of the explosive device in front of the building.

The open terrace with the glass blocks that was affected by an explosion in 2011

About an hour later, at 10:19 p.m. local time, another explosive device exploded on the terrace of the International Congress Center Dresden ⊙ . Remnants of explosives were also found there. The shock wave destroyed the side of a glass block on the terrace in front of the building. The police evacuated the hotel bar.

Investigations and criminal proceedings

The Saxony police informed the public on September 27 at 8 a.m. with a press release about the two attacks in the city and gave tactical reasons for the delayed notification.

As early as the afternoon of September 30, 2016, the public prosecutor's office published images and video material from a surveillance camera that showed a suspect. This could be identified. He was arrested on December 8, 2016 after his DNA was found at the crime scenes.

The arrested 30-year-old Nino Köhler was no stranger to the xenophobic scene. On Monday, July 13, 2015, he was a speaker at a Pegida event. The Pegida boss Lutz Bachmann who was present announced Nino Koehler 's speech with the words “I have Nino next for you. Where is he? A huge applause for Nino! ”. Nino Köhler read an open letter to the Chancellor [Angela Merkel] on stage for nine minutes. The 28-year-old from Dresden accused Chancellor Merkel of “letting criminal foreigners sell drugs” and “lazy Africans plunder our social security funds instead of building their countries”. Nino Köhler described Islamism as a “weapon of mass destruction” to the great applause of 2,800 supporters. Ninos speech culminated u. a. in the threat "If you want civil wars to break out in Germany and Europe, then continue like this ... They should not receive any mercy from us."

Then the Pegidaführer Bachmann praised the young speaker with the words “Those were strong and clear words. Thanks a lot for this."

In September 2017, the Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office brought charges against the accused of attempted murder and causing an explosive explosion . On August 10, 2018, she pleaded for a prison sentence of ten years and nine months. On August 17, 2018, the defense called for a four-and-a-half year prison sentence for causing an explosive device and attempted arson, but denied intent to kill.

On August 31, 2018, the court sentenced Nino Köhler to nine years and eight months in prison for attempted murder, particularly serious arson and the manufacture of incendiary devices. Nino Koehler is said to have made and used metal pipe bombs for the attacks.

Reactions

Neighborhood banner at the entrance gate of the mosque

After the attacks - so called immediately afterwards - the Saxon government decided to put the security measures for the celebrations on the Day of German Unity into force ahead of schedule. Interior Minister Markus Ulbig (CDU) said the day after the attacks that the control area for the festival area would be set up earlier.

"We assume that at least the attack on the mosque has a xenophobic background"

- Horst Kretzschmar, police chief of Dresden

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The way of the neo-Nazi Tom W. in the alleged terror cell "Revolution Chemnitz". , star of October 20, 2018
  2. ↑ Dresden District Court: Court order, Az. 1 Ks 373 Js 128/16, January 24, 2018
  3. ^ Antonie Rietzschel : Almost 10 years imprisonment for bombers. Ordinary citizens, xenophobes, bombers. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 31, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c Dresden Higher Regional Court: 1st arrest review decision of the accused Nino K. June 15, 2017, p. 2 , accessed on July 12, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Police protection for Islamic institutions after bomb attacks
  6. ↑ Press report MDR with crime scene photos
  7. ↑ Die Zeit online: press report from September 30, 2016
  8. ↑ Press report Focus online, with the fade-in of the suspect's surveillance video
  9. ↑ Cornelius Pollmer, editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Dresden, December 9, 2016: Pegida-speaker-should-have-planted-the bomb
  10. ↑ The suspect appeared as a speaker at Pegida-Demo , ZEIT ONLINE, December 9, 2016, accessed January 11, 2018
  11. ↑ Suspected bomber from Dresden captured . In: mdr.de , December 9, 2016, accessed December 9, 2016.
  12. ↑ Speech by Nino. Pegida Dresden, July 13th, 2015 on YouTube
  13. ↑ Nino K. In custody. So the Dresden mosque bomber rushed for Pegida. Bildzeitung December 9, 2016, accessed September 28, 2018.
  14. ↑ Ulrich Wolf: Who was Nino K? Sächsische Zeitung online, December 12, 2016.
  15. ↑ Charges against Pegida activists for attempted murder. Time online from September 19, 2017
  16. ^ Public prosecutor calls for imprisonment for attack on mosque in Dresden. MDR Saxony , August 10, 2018
  17. ↑ Defender of mosque bomber sees no attempted murder. MDR Saxony, August 17, 2018
  18. ^ Antonie Rietzschel: Ordinary citizens, xenophobes, bombers. Almost 10 years in prison for Nino K. Süddeutsche Zeitung, digital edition, August 31, 2018.
  19. ↑ Almost 10 years imprisonment for attack on mosque . Spiegel online August 31, 2018.
  20. ↑ Dresden mosque bomber has to be imprisoned for almost ten years .  ( 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. FAZ net, August 31, 2018@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.faz.net  
  21. ^ Attacks in Dresden: "Here the death of people was consciously accepted" . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed September 27, 2016]).