A Lieutenant Colonel of the Military Shielding Service (MAD) is accused of secrets in the case of the neo-fascist Bundeswehr officer Franco Albrecht, as research by the magazine Focus on Friday revealed. The officer is said to have obstructed the investigation into Albrecht.
Franco Albrecht was arrested in April 2017 on suspicion of planning attacks on politicians and human rights activists. Already during his study of the state and social sciences at the French military academy Saint-Cyr Albrecht had been noticed by racist and völkische theses, but nevertheless not dismissed from the service. Although all the evidence suggests that the soldier planned, as a refugee camouflaged to perform false flag attacks, saw the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court - unlike the Attorney General - in June 2018 "no sufficient suspicion" for the preparation of a terrorist attack. Albrecht has been released since the end of November 2017.
Even as the case became public, there were many indications that Albrecht did not act as a lost individual perpetrator, but acted in an environment of supporters. At a total of 16 locations in Germany, France and Austria house searches took place, in a 24-year-old students found the authorities about a thousand rounds of ammunition and parts of hand grenades. Another soldier, Maximilian T., also came into the focus of the investigators. The trial against T. was discontinued, today he works for the AFD member of parliament Jan Nolte.
The current research of the Focus indicate that the right-wing network in the Bundeswehr could have been significantly larger. Citing investigation files of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the magazine reports that a network of "radical prepapers" has prepared for a "Day X" in which unpopular politicians should be "taken to a place of killing". At the top of the death list is Dietmar Bartsch, leader of the Left in the Bundestag.
Close ties have the group to an association of soldiers, officers and police members named "Uniter e. V. ". Several members of the leadership of the Uniter e. V. are active in the private security sector, the association is well connected and offers military training. The unnamed chairman of the non-profit association, a former member of the Special Forces Command (KSK), is said to have led chat groups of right-wing preppers.
The inaction of the authorities in view of the possible involvement of well-trained and field-tested soldiers and officers in the activities of driven by racialist-racist conspiracy theories Franco Albrecht criticized the spokeswoman for anti-fascist policy of the Left Party in the Bundestag, Martina Renner, on Friday
but nobody was taking it seriously.
