Suspected German anti-government extremist convicted of shooting at police

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Suspected German anti-government extremist convicted of shooting at police

Updated 9:25 AM EST, November 15, 2023

BERLIN (AP) — A suspected anti-government extremist was convicted of attempted murder in Germany on Wednesday for firing at police who had come to search his home for an unauthorized weapon.

The Stuttgart state court sentenced the 55-year-old German citizen, whose name it didn’t release, to 14 1/2 years in prison. He was convicted of several counts of attempted murder, along with attacking and resisting officers and bodily harm.

The court said the defendant had for years been writing letters to authorities that were typical of the Reich Citizens scene, which rejects the legitimacy of Germany’s postwar constitution and has similarities to the Sovereign Citizens and QAnon movements in the United States.

In 2021, he moved to a farm in Boxberg in southwestern Germany, where he lived along with others with similar views in an isolated community. He showed signs of increasing radicalization. Earlier that year, his weapons license was revoked, and he didn’t respond to demands that he give up a pistol that he had owned legally.

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[Chainfire]

1. Stolzer Junge?

Maybe he will cool down a little in his 70s.

[DFW]

2. We definitely have our nut cases here, too

The German equivalent of the Bundy Idaho whackos. But a fourteen year sentence here is almost unheard of. I realize that in Mississippi you might 14 years for stealing a candy bar while black, but in Germany, to get that kind of a sentence, you really have to have done something really drastic, and if it’s not murder one, then it has to involve firearms.