The Bundeswehr officer Franco A. has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison by the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court. The court found him guilty on Friday, among other things, of preparing a serious criminal offense endangering the state.
In the trial of suspected terrorist plans by the former Bundeswehr soldier Franco A., the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main passed its verdict on Friday. announced. The man has to go to prison for five and a half years. The public prosecutor accused the accused of having planned an attack out of right-wing extremist sentiment. He is said to have bought a pistol, hoarded ammunition from Bundeswehr stocks and owned other illegal weapons.
Franco A. was arrested at Vienna Airport in 2017 when he wanted to get a gun hidden there. He had previously posed as a Syrian refugee for more than a year. In June, the federal prosecutor’s office dismissed the allegation that he wanted to direct suspicion towards asylum seekers for later investigations. She asked for six years and three months in prison. The defense pleaded for acquittal of the charge of preparing a serious criminal offense endangering the state and only advocated a suspended sentence for weapons offences.
