Overview
- The Higher Regional Court in Dresden admitted the indictment and ordered continued pre-trial detention for all eight defendants.
- The accused face charges of membership in a terrorist organization and preparation of a high-treason enterprise, along with additional offenses.
- The court has not set a start date for the trial, with hearing dates to be announced.
- According to the indictment, the group formed in early 2020 with roughly 20 adherents, espoused racist, antisemitic and partly apocalyptic beliefs, and conducted firearms drills and paramilitary training.
- Prosecutors allege plans to seize parts of Saxony, impose a Nazi-inspired regime, carry out ethnic cleansing, and they cite raids in November 2024 that led to eight arrests and the expulsion of three AfD-linked suspects from the party.