Instructions for terrorist attacks
“Frontal” report: Dresden Telegram group is said to have cooperated with US neo-Nazis
According to a ZDF report, members of the Dresden Offline Networking group worked with a US neo-Nazi network on the Telegram platform
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The Telegram group “Dresden Offline Networking”, which forged plans to murder Saxony’s Prime Minister Kretschmer, is said to have cooperated with a US neo-Nazi group, according to the ZDF magazine “Frontal”. Instructions for terrorist attacks are said to have been shared.
In a group of the messenger Telegram instructions for terrorist attacks, assaults and the procurement of explosives are said to have been shared. That reports that ZDF magazine “Frontal”. The group “Dresden Offline Networking”, which forged plans to murder the Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer, is said to have cooperated with the US neo-Nazi network “MZWNEWS” of the Holocaust denier John de Nugent. The “Frontal” editorial team had audio chats and screenshots to prove this. on YouTube the editorial team shared the unedited audio chats.
According to “Frontal” statements, the network called on German Telegram users to set up militant resistance cells. One of the chats is said to have said something like: “Form small groups of a maximum of 15 people and start cleaning up effectively.” More than ten other so-called offline groups are said to have formed all over Germany as a result. Members should also have met.
Violent fantasies in the Dresden Telegram group
As “Frontal” further reports, fantasies of violence were also spread in the Telegram group. A spokesman is said to have said that he wanted to have a target device fitted to his weapon. He also expressed fear of a vaccination team on his doorstep, at which he wanted to shoot with his rifle or a crossbow through the apartment door: “Well, two people fall over,” he is quoted in the report.
In the same chat, the spokesman is said to have said: “You can get the guys from this regime without peaceful means, without violence, no longer away!” His lawyer said “Frontal”: “Nobody has ever seriously prepared or even considered a possible crime.”
In December, death threats against Michael Kretschmer (CDU) became known on Telegram. The police then carried out raids in Dresden. Crossbows, weapons and parts of weapons were confiscated. According to ZDF, the Dresden Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that the investigations into seven suspects were ongoing: “The accusation against the accused is of joint preparation of a serious, state-endangering act of violence.”