Overview

• The Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Dresden has filed charges at the Amtsgericht Dresden against a 43-year-old woman for aiding an attempted fire attack on a planned asylum-seeker facility.
• She is accused of encouraging the main perpetrator to set fire to a former school building in the Klotzsche district on September 29, 2023.
• Authorities say the accused acted out of xenophobic intent to prevent the opening of refugee accommodation.
• The principal defendant, Michael S., was sentenced on June 26 to four years and three months in prison for election fraud, attempted arson and related crimes.
• Officials describe the new indictment as part of a broader effort to dismantle far-right networks threatening democratic integrity and immigrant communities.