Overview

• The district court ruled the vandalism political and racist after wreaths at Hannover‑Ahlem were overturned and damaged on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• Judges imposed a two-year prison sentence that will be suspended during a three-year probation period.
• Conditions include a €2,000 payment to an anti-radicalization program and mandatory participation in a right‑wing extremist exit program.
• A subsequent search found a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition, a switchblade, other weapons, and a small quantity of narcotics.
• The defendant confessed, the defense accepted the verdict without appeal, and the judge said he had ‘trampled the memory of millions of dead people.’