On February 11, 2022, Franco A. was arrested for the second time.

At the S-Bahn station "Ledermuseum" in Offenbach, where the lieutenant lives, police officers approach him and want to check him.

Franco A. doesn't like that.

He wants to know what they want from him and refuses to follow their instructions.

The situation escalates.

Videos of passers-by show A. losing his composure while more police officers come to reinforce him.

The lieutenant screams, his voice panicking.

"I will not bow to violence," he yells as the police yell for him to lie on the ground.

"I've done nothing wrong," "I won't comply," "I'm a free citizen of this country and a free citizen of this world," and then, when the cops overpowered him, "I'm suffocating, stop it."

Anna Sophia Lang

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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Passers-by who film what is happening berate the police officers as “shitty fascists”.

What they don't know is that a Bundeswehr officer is being arrested here who is said to have planned attacks for ethnic, nationalist, anti-Semitic and racist motives, disguised as a Syrian refugee at whom the population's anger should be directed.

He was considered one of the best

The passers-by don't know either that Franco A. has just returned from Strasbourg, where he picked up a box full of Nazi memorabilia from a comrade, which he now carries through Offenbach in a plastic bag, and notebooks in which he writes his thoughts about the alleged threat to the German people from "mixed marriages" and migration.

Two days later, the soldier who was being monitored by the military counter-intelligence service was taken into custody.

The judges who issued the arrest warrant fear that Franco A. could set off again and this time not collect Nazi memorabilia, but weapons.

Weapons that he hasn't revealed to this day where he's hiding them.

His fiancé explained his silence as follows: he wanted to protect another person whose life he would destroy if he opened his mouth.

Since May 2021, Franco A., lieutenant in the Bundeswehr, 33 years old, father of three children, has been standing before the State Security Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt.

One, whom the Bundeswehr had always described as one of its most industrious, best and most ambitious, is said to have planned a serious act of violence that endangered the state.

Franco A. was busted in 2017.

He wanted to get a pistol at the airport in Vienna that he had deposited there.

The Defense Minister at the time, Ursula von der Leyen (CDU), then posed in front of the cameras at Jäger Battalion 291 of the Franco-German Brigade in Illkirch near Strasbourg, where Franco A. was stationed, and attested to the troops having a "posture problem", "wrong esprit de corps" and "Leadership Weakness".

Anyone who followed the trial in Frankfurt must ask themselves how so many in the Bundeswehr could either be so naive or turn a blind eye to the machinations of Franco A. and his like-minded comrades.

One of them, the brother of As' fiancé, later worked for the AfD member of the Bundestag Jan Nolte - also a soldier - and is now deputy chairman of the Junge Alternative Sachsen-Anhalt, which is monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies him as a right-wing extremist.