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Verdict against terror plans at synagogue: prison sentences for radicals!
Verdict against two young men after plotting attacks on Jewish institutions; Prison sentence in Heilbronn final.
Verdict against terror plans at synagogue: prison sentences for radicals!
On June 4, 2025, the Heilbronn Regional Court's ruling condemning two young men for their plans to attack a synagogue became final. Loud ZVW A 25-year-old German received a prison sentence of a total of six years. His 18-year-old accomplice was sentenced to a youth prison sentence of two years and ten months. Both men planned an attack on a synagogue in Heidelberg or Frankfurt via the Internet last spring and fully confess to the allegations.
The court found that the defendants were determined to kill as many people as possible and to die a martyr's death in the process. Their radicalization was identified as a decisive trigger for the attack plans. Necessarily, the appeal against the judgment was withdrawn, meaning that the judgment is now legally binding.
Current threat situation
Parallel to this case, the security situation in Germany is shaken by another incident. A 19-year-old who was arrested in Switzerland planned an attack on the synagogue in Halle an der Saale. The Halle public prosecutor's office reported that the suspect had announced right-wing extremist-motivated plans in a Telegram chat group ZDF reported. When he was arrested in Switzerland on February 14, a functioning long gun and electronic communications equipment were confiscated.
The 19-year-old is now being investigated for preparing a serious, subversive act of violence and unlawful possession of a firearm. An arrest warrant has already been issued by the Halle district court. Despite these serious allegations, the accused denies having seriously pursued the attack plans. He was extradited to the German authorities on April 22nd.
This incident also coincides with the fifth anniversary of the 2019 anti-Semitic attack in Halle, in which there was an attempted storming of the synagogue, which resulted in the murder of two people. This date also casts a shadow on the current security situation and the threats against Jewish institutions in Germany.