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Since December, they are said to have sent threatening letters to politicians and planted incendiary devices. Now two suspected left-wing extremists have been arrested. They are said to have threatened further attacks on rail traffic.
After a nationwide campaign of threats and intimidation allegedly motivated by left-wing extremists, investigators captured two suspects. They are a 38-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, as announced by the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office and the Stuttgart prosecutor. They are also said to have deposited incendiary devices at various locations.
The duo are said to have sent threatening letters to politicians and authorities since December last year. According to investigators, his threatening letters included knives, blank cartridges and barbecue lighters. They signed the letters and letters of confession to the incendiary devices on behalf of a “collective of revolutionary action cells.”
Threats against transport companies
According to the investigators, the campaign to intimidate the suspects was directed against numerous politicians, ministries and authorities. According to previous media reports, the letters were sent to Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, and 14 state interior ministers, among others.
According to an investigation by “Spiegel”, the two suspected left-wing extremists are said to have threatened to attack local public transport in October. Consequently, the letters were addressed to the transport association VVS Stuttgart, the VBB Berlin-Brandenburg and the Cologne transport company and each contained a lighter and a grill lighter. In the attached letters, the authors threatened to paralyze rail traffic, blow up ticket machines and shoot those responsible for the company.
One-month investigations by state security
According to investigators, the suspects asked those affected in their threatening letters to “focus political measures on the needs of the population and not on corporate lobbyists.” At the same time, they threatened the use of force.
According to the Stuttgart authorities, the arrests were made during searches of five objects in Berlin and Stuttgart. However, the exact location where the two suspects were captured remained open. The arrests were preceded by months of state security investigations at the federal level.
The magazine “Der Spiegel” reported that the accused in Baden-Württemberg were active in politics. According to this, the 39-year-old arrested was an official of a small ecological party, while the 38-year-old worked for a left-wing parliamentary alliance in Stuttgart. In Bad Cannstatt town hall, the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office also searched a chamber of the district advisory council, of which the man was said to be a deputy member.
A “considerable fire effect” was avoided
In August, an incendiary device is said to have been placed at the private home of meat maker Clemens Tönnies in Rheda-Wiedenbrück in North Rhine-Westphalia, but it did not ignite.
In the same month, according to investigators, they planted an incendiary device in a Federal Employment Agency (BA) building in Nuremberg. This came on, but not as planned. This was the only way to prevent a “significant fire effect,” he said. The duo are charged with, among other things, arson and attempted arson.
Group of the same name active ten years ago
Ten years ago a group called “Revolutionary Action Cells” appeared. At the time, he confessed to carrying out several attacks with fire and explosives against government buildings in Berlin, in which no one was injured. In 2011 he also sent a threatening letter with cartridges to the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Hans-Peter Friedrich. In the 2013 case, the federal prosecutor’s office registered flats throughout Germany.
It is not yet known whether the suspects who have now been arrested are related to the events at the time.
