Overview
- The 17-year-old main suspect is accused of adopting an antisemitic extremist worldview since early 2023 and deciding to target people who did not fit it.
- Investigators allege he learned to make explosives, produced them, and tested explosive devices and a firearm near his parents’ home between September 2024 and March 2025.
- Charges include preparing a serious state-endangering act of violence, violations of explosives and weapons laws, incitement to hatred, and 25 counts for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations.
- A 15-year-old is charged with accompanying explosive tests and sharing the ideology, and an 18-year-old is accused of buying materials used for explosive production.
- The indictment was filed at the Amtsgericht Limburg with a request to move the case to the Landgericht; the 17-year-old remains in pre-trial detention since April, and a separate probe of his father continues with prosecutors reporting no joint act and media claims of a weapons hoard unconfirmed.