A young German woman is accused of preparing a terrorist attack against a town hall

The Stuttgart prosecutor's office (southern Germany) accused a 25-year-old woman on Tuesday of having prepared an attack against a local town hall with weapons and explosives and motivated by xenophobic convictions.

The woman began planning in 2021 how to organize a massacre in the town hall of the town of Fellbach, the prosecutor's office reported in a statement, in which it points out that she acted allegedly guided by a motivation “hostile to the State and xenophobic.”

To do so, he intended to use explosives, incendiary devices, modified firearms and knives, with the aim of killing certain city hall employees, as well as “as many visitors as possible.”

As part of the preparations, the accused illegally acquired blank weapons and edged weapons and manufactured black powder to make pipe bombs.

For this reason, the prosecutor's office accused the German citizen of having prepared a “serious act of violence that endangers the State”, as well as violations against the arms law.

The statement concluded by pointing out that the suspect is in preventive detention and that during the trial a decision will be made regarding her possible admission to a psychiatric hospital.

According to the Bild tabloid, the defendant's arrest occurred in the fall, after workers from a moving service discovered gunpowder among her personal belongings.