Far-right 'terror' group in dock in Germany over attack plot

BERLIN: The trial of a neo-Nazi"terrorist" cell accused of plotting violent political upheaval in Germany opens on Monday amid reports the country's far-right scene is growing more armed and radical.

The anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim Alternative for Germany party scored 27.5 per cent in a state election earlier this month, just shy of the 32 per cent garnered by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives. Security agencies hope the trial, which is set to last until at least April 2020 and hear around 75 witnesses, will reveal what exactly was being plotted and the scope of the network.The defendants belong to the hooligan, neo-Nazi and skinhead scene in and around Chemnitz, another city in Saxony, which was the scene of anti-migrant street violence following the murder of a German man in August last year.

The defendants launched an online chat group under the name Revolution Chemnitz around the same time, in early September 2018. The men reportedly"wanted to achieve more than the National Socialist Underground" or NSU, a neo-Nazi extremist group uncovered in 2011 that murdered 10 people and planted three bombs.However authorities say they were able to swoop on the cell before it could carry out its plans.

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