Skinheads Saxon Switzerland

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The Skinheads Saxon Switzerland ( SSS ) is a neo-Nazi comradeship that has been banned since 2001 and was mainly active in the area of Saxon Switzerland , an area around Pirna and Königstein southeast of Dresden .

Publications

The SSS published two propaganda newspapers : "Froindschaft" for older sympathizers and "Parole" for the younger ones .

founding

The SSS was founded in 1997 by former members of the forbidden Wiking youth . Information about the number of members varies between 100 and 120 people. The SSS can therefore be regarded as one of the largest right-wing extremist comradeships known to date.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution estimated the group's potential at several hundred people.

Prohibition

The SSS was banned by the Saxon Interior Minister Klaus Hardraht ( CDU ) in April 2001 because “the purpose and activities of the SSS are directed against the constitutional order” . It is one of the right-wing extremist organizations prohibited by the state, such as the Wiking-Jugend , Blood and Honor or other neo-Nazi groups and parties. When a possible ban emerged, the comradeship tried to dissolve itself via an announcement on the Internet and thus forestall a ban. At the same time, the National Resistance Pirna (NWP) was founded to bring about a successor organization. Both attempts to evade the ban failed, however, as both the SSS and its successor organization were banned.

In June 2000, around 200 officers from the Saxon State Criminal Police Office searched the homes of neo-Nazis in cities and communities southeast of Dresden. Police officers from the region were neither informed in advance nor were they involved in the action, as the connections between the population and the neo-Nazis were described as too close at the time. In addition to right-wing extremist propaganda, more than two kilograms of explosives as well as grenades, rifles, pistols and live ignition devices were found during the searches. In September 2000 there were again searches, as a result of which other members of the SSS were charged with having contributed to the formation of a criminal organization . Among other things, the 33-year-old Uwe Leichsenring from Königstein was affected, who at the time was the NPD district manager of Saxon Switzerland and was elected to the city parliament with 11.8 percent in the last local elections . In the course of the proceedings, further close contacts between the SSS and the NPD were uncovered. For example, members of the SSS regularly acted as hall protection at NPD events. Members of the SSS testified in court that they had become aware of the group through the NPD. NPD cadres were heavily involved in the group.

The processes

In the summer of 2003, the first proceedings against members of the SSS began. On the basis of confessions , 18 suspended sentences and the classification of the neo-Nazi group as a criminal organization were pronounced in the first trials . The SSS were represented by twelve lawyers, including Günther Herzogenrath-Amelung , who already advised SS man Erich Priebke . In the trials that followed, the defendants refused to make any admission in hopes of escaping suspended sentences like the first convicts. The procedures were made even more complicated because, as in most neo-Nazi trials in recent years, so-called V-people had been smuggled into the groups. A total of 82 people were investigated by the public prosecutor's office in the three SSS proceedings and only probation or fines were imposed on all of the charges raised - mostly for membership in a criminal organization, sedition , breach of the peace and bodily harm , coercion and the use of anti-constitutional symbols. On August 2, 2006, the former leader of the banned neo-Nazi organization was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment: "The State Security Chamber of the Dresden Regional Court saw it as proven that the 32-year-old played a decisive role in the continued existence of the organization, which was banned in 2001." The defense announced an appeal against the judgment.

Underground

At the end of 2004, after several violent attempts to disrupt a demonstration against right-wing violence in Pirna, the house of activists of the SSS, which was banned in 2001, was again searched, which again led to proceedings against 25 people. The accusation was, among other things, of “maintaining the cohesion of the SSS and using existing structures” . Furthermore, this association is being monitored by the LKA Sachsen, which tries to prevent the re-establishment of the anti-constitutional connection.

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  1. ↑ "SSS" -Anführer sentenced ( Memento of 30 April 2007 at the Internet Archive ) , MDR , August 2, 2006
  2. ^ Judgment: Neo-Nazi leader must be behind bars , Focus Online , August 2, 2006
  3. ^ Olaf Meyer: Still active despite the ban , Telepolis, December 5, 2004