Cross posted from: https://feddit.de/post/11214053
According to the statement by prosecutors, the accused are under “strong suspicion” of “having worked for a foreign secret service in a particularly serious incident. In addition, Dieter S, reportedly a 39-year-old dual Russian-German citizen, is charged with “conspiring to cause an explosive attack and arson, acting as an agent for sabotage purposes and security-endangering collection of intelligence on military installations”.
Dieter S had been in contact with a member of the Russian secret services and had been developing sabotage plans in Germany since October 2023.
The folly of Germany’s jus sanguinis nationality law becomes apparent. In the 90s, a large number of Russians were automatically given German citizenship due to being descended from Germans who moved to Russia centuries ago at the behest of Catherine the Great. Most of them speak no German and live in Russian-speaking enclaves, marinating in Putinist disinformation on Russian-language news channels, voting for AfD and, it seems now, occasionally committing espionage and sabotage.
What’s the diplomatic protocol for proving state ordered terror/sabotage?
I feel like I never read about what happens after the bust.
Well they will be charged with a plenitude of offenses. I can think of at least 4. My bet is that they will be traded for some high-profile prisoners incarcerated in Russia or a fugitive living in Russia, like Masalek for example
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two Russian nationals have been arrested in southern Germany suspected of plotting sabotage attacks on US military facilities, German prosecutors announced on Thursday.
The men, named as Dieter S and Alexander J, are suspected of operating as Russian spies on behalf of the Kremlin, according to German media sources.
The suspects were arrested on Tuesday and Thursday last week, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement, adding that their homes and workplaces were being searched.
In addition, Dieter S, reportedly a 39-year-old dual Russian-German citizen, is charged with “conspiring to cause an explosive attack and arson, acting as an agent for sabotage purposes and security-endangering collection of intelligence on military installations”.
The prosecutors said that based on “underlying facts”, there was also a strong suspicion that Dieter S had worked in eastern Ukraine between December 2014 and September 2016 as a fighter for an armed unit of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and had acquired a firearm for this purpose.
Dieter S was reportedly brought before judges at Germany’s federal court of justice in Karlsruhe on Wednesday and remanded in custody.
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