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Erfurt (dpa / th) - The initiative “Grandmas against the law” wants to prevent the prosecution and the accused from reaching agreements in the proceedings because of the right-wing extremist attack on a fair company in Ballstädt. To offer the accused a “deal” is “a fatal signal”, according to a petition that the Erfurt group of this initiative intends to publish on the Internet on Monday. The text is available to the German Press Agency. "For those affected, this decision by the Thuringian judiciary would be a second slap in the face, a signal for militant neo-Nazis in the state to be able to remain at large even after brutal attacks."
In May 2017, the district court of Erfurt found ten men and one woman guilty of having been involved in the attack on a fair company in Ballstädt (district of Gotha) in February 2014. Some of them had been sentenced to several years in prison. Four other defendants were acquitted. Ten people were injured, some seriously, in the attack. The process had been negotiated on a total of 45 days since December 2015.
The Federal Court of Justice overturned the judgment last year for formal reasons and referred it back to another criminal chamber of the regional court for renegotiation.
In the meantime it has become known through media reports that the public prosecutor in Erfurt was considering entering into so-called deals with the defendants, among other things to shorten the new version of the proceedings.
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In their petition, the “grandmas against the law” also argue that the alleged perpetrators of Ballstädt were right-wing extremists who were active in the so-called Thuringian homeland security.
From this group later emerged the National Socialist Underground, which is responsible for the murders of eight small entrepreneurs of Turkish descent and one small business owner of Greek descent, as well as a policewoman.
The “grandmas against the right” are older women who campaign against right-wing extremism.
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Grandmas against the right