On a bluish Saturday morning, a man with a bald skull and a boyish face steers his old combination through the Saxon province. A woman he met on the Internet sits next to him. His goal is a small market in the Czech border town of Dolní Poustevna. He has planned his route well, winding paths, no highway, he will park the car on the German side and run the last piece. Justin Schmidt* does not want to suspect. A comrade and he have a fatal plan.
Schmidt sits on the steering wheel like a statue of himself. His round body does not reveal any emotion. His gaze seems to be liable on the country road that lies in front of him. Outside, fields pass, villages, a petrol station. Two fragrance trees tremble on the rear mirror.
It is mid -January 2025. Schmidt is 21 years old, driver. He lives with his stepfather in a allotment settlement in Saxony, on the edge of a village with a few hundred inhabitants and a supermarket. There you have a plot with two arcades. A blue sign hangs on your front door, “Führerbunker” is on it.
Schmidt says he was a right -wing as a child. His comrades are also on the right, one has collected more ads than years of age. He knows some from the same secret chat group as the woman in his passenger seat. They have had around 60 members at times in the past few months. The youngest is 15, says Schmidt, many others hardly older.
Source: Stern
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