The soldier planned to carry out an attack at an unknown time on high-ranking politicians and public figures. Photo: ReutersA German soldier was charged on Tuesday (local time) with plotting to kill senior politicians because of their support for refugees and trying to make it look like asylum seekers carried out the murders. Among the targets were Justice Minister Heiko Maas, a senior Social Democrat, Greens politician Claudia Roth as well as human rights activists and journalists, the prosecutor's office added. Prosecutors suspect that Franco Hans A., along with two accomplices, wanted to implicate refugees in their planned attack by posing as an asylum seeker. The federal prosecutor's office said the soldier was accused of committing a serious act of violent subversion and violating the military weapons control law, as well as gun and explosives laws.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 12, 2017 19:52 UTC