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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - In the winter of 2017, a suspected supporter of the terrorist militia IS is said to have planned an attack with a truck on the Karlsruhe ice rink and has to answer for it in court.
For this serious accusation, after more than two years of trial, there is no evidence from the point of view of defense attorney Marc Jüdt, why his client should be acquitted on this point.
However, he chatted with Islamists.
The decisive question here is what the intention was, said Jüdt on Monday after the hearing before the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court.
The defendant has been in custody for almost three years and was previously detained in Iraq for two months.
The penalty for the chats could only be lower, so that his client would have to be released, said Jüdt.
The federal prosecutor's office had charged the Freiburg-born German of Kurdish origin with supporting the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) and preparing a serious act of violence that was dangerous to the state.
Similar to the attack on a Berlin Christmas market at the end of 2016 with twelve dead, the man wanted to drive a truck into the stands at the ice rink a year later in Karlsruhe - with the aim of killing as many people as possible.
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Last week the prosecution pleaded for eight years and three months in prison.
The period of imprisonment served in Erbil from mid-August to mid-October 2016 should be counted twice.
The court wants to announce its verdict on Wednesday next week (December 2nd).
Old notice from the court