Protection group (terrorist organization)

The Schutzgruppe (SG) was a right-wing terrorist association from Munich .

description

The SG had about ten members of the neo-Nazi organization Kameradschaft Süd . The protection group had a large arsenal of weapons and explosives that it had obtained illegally. According to the findings of the Bavarian police, the group around the neo-Nazi Martin Wiese planned an attack on the laying of the foundation stone of the Jewish cultural center in Munich on November 9, 2003 on St.-Jakobs-Platz in Munich. According to the allegation, Wiese is said to have planned the bomb attack together with the protection group for the 65th anniversary of the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 2003.

The planned terrorist attack was the most famous act of right- wing terrorism in Germany until the National Socialist Underground became known in 2011 . The close involvement of the secret service in the right-wing terrorist scene through informers was criticized by critics.

Processes

The leader Wiese and three of his closest confidants were charged with membership in a terrorist organization , preparation of explosives crimes, violation of the War Weapons Control Act and illicit possession of weapons and explosives. The main point of contention between the prosecution and the defense was in the trials how precisely the preparations for the attack had progressed. The role of the undercover agent Didier M., who joined the Kameradschaft Süd founded a year earlier in 2002, remained unclear.

Web links

• Report Mainz report on Martin Wiese and the attack plans
• Compilation of several articles on Martin Wiese in the Süddeutsche
• Michael Reinhard / Marco Kuhn: Munich: Explosive find in the right scene. Unsuccessful attack in Munich reveals Nazi networking

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report ( Memento of March 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 206 kB)