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.