2024-12-13 06:12:00
From Friday in Germany the alleged ATM attackers will have to answer for the first time before the Frankfurt regional court on charges of attempted murder. The six defendants are said to have condoned the deaths of uninvolved citizens during explosions in May 2023 in Bad Homburg and June 2023 in Frankfurt.
In total, the prosecutor’s office accuses the men aged between 26 and 32, who according to the authority are part of the Dutch ATM bombing scene, wiht seven crimes that occured in 2022 and 2023. They are also accused of explosive explosion, commercial theft and property damage.
ATM exploded in a shopping mall
In addition to the explosions in Wickede in North Rhine-Westphalia and Jünkerath in Rhineland-Palatinate, the group is also said to be responsible for several acts in Hesse. In addition to the two explosions last spring in Bad Homburg and the one in June of the same year in Neu-Isenburg, the prosecution also accuses them of two crimes in Frankfurt. They are said to have blown up a vending machine in a shopping centre in mid-June 2023. The men’s second, and presumably last, act took place five days later in east Frankfurt.
According to the indictment, the group stole more than 870,000 euros in their crimes. Only in one case in Bad Homburg were they left empty-handed. According to the authority, this contrasts with substantially higher damage to buildings, amounting to around 2.5 million euros.
The group is said to have divided the work and had different lineups.Authorities accuse a 31-year-old defendant of participating in four ATM explosions. A 28-year-old is said to have been present at two completed ATM explosions and one attempted one. A 26-year-old man is accused of participating in two crimes and the other men are accused of each participating in the ATM explosion.
All the men were arrested in May or June last year and have been in custody as.
