Germany: Court jails far-right youth terror cell members
A Hamburg court has handed down stiff prison sentences to members of the far-right terrorist group "Last Wave of Defense." Politicians are warning that those drawn into extremist violence are getting younger.
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The seven members and one supporter of the "Last Wave of Defense" (Letzte Verteidigungswelle) group were found guilty of crimes with the aim of bringing about the collapse of Germany's political system through attacks on migrants and "political opponents." The judge in the Hamburg Higher Regional Court said the group's name reflected their deeply racist and violent mindset.
"We are the wave that washes the filth out of our country," the group had written in pamphlets.
The young men sentenced on Wednesday were aged between 14 and 21 when they committed the crimes.
They were sentenced under juvenile criminal law to youth prison terms ranging from one and a half to five years.
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