A German soldier who registered as a Syrian asylum seeker was convicted of preparing a “serious act of violence endangering the state,” according to German media, in one of the country’s most prominent cases of right-wing extremism in recent years.
The extraordinary case unfolded like a movie plot when Albrecht was arrested in 2017 after trying to retrieve a loaded pistol from a bathroom in the Vienna airport. The gun had been discovered and reported by a cleaning lady, and police then lay in wait for someone to retrieve it.
A run of Albrecht’s fingerprints revealed that he had been leading a double life: the officer in the German military was also registered in Bavaria as a Syrian refugee named as Benjamin David.to carry out the attacks to make them appear like “radical Islamist acts of terrorism.” He had been plotting his actions since 2015, during the thick of the so-called migrant crisis, when more than a million refugees — largely from war-torn Syria — were arriving in Germany.
But while he was convicted of planning an attack, the court said it could not establish whether his intention was to blame it on the refugee population. The defendant had maintained he had registered as a refugee to expose what he saw as problems with the asylum system.
In another twist earlier this year, Albrecht, who had not be held in detention while on trial, was arrested again in February on his way back from the French city of Strasbourg. A police search found him to be in possession of a box full of Nazi memorabilia and notes that described the threats to the German nation from migration and intermarriage.
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