In Germany, an extensive network of nationalists from the Bundeswehr military was revealed. They prepared attempts for German officials and politicians

Pistol in the station toilet

A Bundeswehr employee (an analogue of the Ministry of Defense) named Franco A. from the city of Offenbach was detained by the police in April 2017. Although the prosecutor’s office has since shared a large number of details in this case, the full name of the suspect still remains a secret for the media.

The story of Franco seems absolutely fantastic.

“At first, I myself could not believe it,” said Christoph Gram, in an interview with the German magazine Spiegel in an interview with the German magazine. “This is the first such case that our unit to combat extremism is faced.”

The police became interested in military personnel in February 2017. It was then that during the repair work at Vienna International Airport, a charged pistol was found in the sewer pipe of one of the toilets. The police did not ruin the cache, but installed there a sensor, which was supposed to react as soon as someone came for a gun. The sensor worked on February 3 - the police detained Franco A.

He said that he allegedly found a pistol “somewhere in the bushes” and left himself, but he suddenly realized that he could not pass security control, and therefore hid the weapon. The police did not really believe in this story, took off her fingerprints and sent German colleagues.

Nationalist, he is a Syrian refugee

The coincidence was found right there-a man with the same fingerprints once seemed to be an applicant for a political asylum from Syria named David Benjamin.

After that, the Germans connected to the case. It turned out that in 2015, David Benjamin managed to register in Bavaria with a refugee from Syria. He said to the migration service that he allegedly escaped from Damascus, where he was born in 1988 in the family of a fruit merchant. The migration service believed - and even gave him a room in a hostel, and also allocated a monthly allowance of 400 euros.

Why Franco A. needed to pretend to be a Syrian refugee is not entirely clear. One version of the police is that in this way he wanted to wedge into the migration community. At the same time, Franco continued to regularly come to the service - and no suspicion arose.

Having found out these details, the police did not immediately arrest Franco: in the hope that he would take them to his accomplices, she installed him and began to listen to his phone. Franco-David, indeed, regularly exchanged reports with several people, full, according to the police, “Xenophobic statements” and “hatred of foreigners”.

As a result, the police reached the alleged accomplice of Franco A. - his childhood friend Matias F.

In April, both were detained again. During a search in the house of Matias, the police found weapons, manual grenades and a small amount of explosives.

Murders on the list

According to the German publication Focus with reference to their own sources in the criminal police, today law enforcement officers are already developing a whole network of followers of extremist ideology. The backbone of the suspects, according to journalists, consists of KSK fighters - the special forces of the German army. These are “elite troops” of special training, which participate in anti -terrorist operations, intelligence and counterintelligence, and are also involved in NATO operations.

The police found that the network unites about 200 military personnel.

Communication between them took place in the landlords, where it was possible to find evidence that the group was preparing for the so -called “X Day” - the day when the combat organization would liquidate several objectionable politicians at once. The conspirators had his own list of victims, which included the head of the Left faction in parliament, Ditmar Barkch and several more high -ranking officials.

Already several warehouses with weapons and combustible liquid - also, presumably belonging to the conspirators, were discovered and opened by the police.

The circle of suspects is even wider

But the police claim that the conspirators had supporters outside KSK.

For example, in the near future, Cologne’s court will consider the case instituted against a 42-year-old military counterintelligence officer, the official representative of the court was confirmed by Die Welt. The counterintelligence is accused of disclosing state secrets: in September 2017, he warned several Franco supporters about operational-search measures conducted by them.