Police and justice - "Knockout 51": Prison for suspected right-wing extremists
Following searches in the course of investigations into the right-wing extremist martial arts group"Knockout 51", arrest warrants have been issued and executed against three men. Two of the suspects are accused of membership of a right-wing extremist criminal and terrorist organization, another is said to be a supporter, as the Federal Public Prosecutor General announced in Karlsruhe on Friday.
The three were arrested on Thursday. Four properties were searched in Thuringia - according to dpa information in Erfurt and Eisenach.
"Knockout 51" was mainly active in the Eisenach area; the group was made up of particularly violent right-wing extremists. According to the Federal Public Prosecutor General, it was a right-wing extremist martial arts group that "attracted young, nationalist-minded men under the guise of joint physical training, deliberately indoctrinated them with right-wing extremist ideas and trained them for physical confrontations with police officers, members of the left-wing political scene and other people considered worth fighting".
A trial against four alleged members of "Knockout 51" is already underway at the Jena Higher Regional Court. The men had planned, among other things, to kill their political opponents by using knives, axes and machetes, it was said during the reading of the indictment. The court had only admitted the charges against the men on the condition that "Knockout 51" was only classified as a criminal organization and not as a terrorist organization, at least temporarily.
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Source: www.stern.de
