Attack on a residential home: opening of the verdict in the explosives case in Basel

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The men are accused of carrying out an explosive attack on a residential home in the Bruderholz district of Basel at the end of March 2022. This resulted in material damage totaling 170,000 francs. People were not injured. Both defendants denied the crime during the main hearing in late October. They made extensive use of their right to refuse to testify.

The Federal Public Prosecution Service (BA) also accuses the 25-year-old and the soon-to-be 28-year-old of traveling to Stuttgart/Germany in June 2022 to purchase two kilos of C4 plastic explosives and a weapon. However, the alleged seller was a German researcher, so the young men were arrested.

The Public Prosecution Service assumes that the explosives were intended to be used in four other attacks on the homes of wealthy families. The aim was to build pressure to extort one million francs worth of Bitcoins each.

The BA has charged the two men with endangerment by explosives and poisonous gases with criminal intent, damage to property, attempts to manufacture, concealment and distribution of explosives and poisonous gases, as well as preparatory criminal measures relating to intentional murder, murder and serious crimes. injury.

The BA regards the younger defendant as the calculation planner who, for example, had already set up the depot for the Bitcoins. The 28-year-old was portrayed as the implementation man who liked to brag to third parties. In a tapped telephone conversation, he told a friend that he and his co-suspect had committed the attack in the Bruderholz district. (Case SK.2023.33) (SDA)

Source:Blick