A far-right group is suspected of threatening lawyers representing the alleged Solingen stabbing attacker when he applied for asylum in Germany, police in the city of Dresden said on Wednesday.
Several suspects placed three wooden crosses in front of the law firm in Dresden that represented the alleged perpetrator, a 26-year-old Syrian, in his asylum procedure, police said.
The man, identified under Germany’s strict privacy laws as Issa Al H, is suspected of killing three people and wounding eight others in the stabbing attack in the western city of Solingen on August 23.
He has been taken into custody.
The state security service has launched an investigation after a group of people placed crosses and posters in front of the company’s driveway accusing the company of being partly responsible for the deaths in the attack in Solingen on Saturday, police said.
According to police, the anti-immigration and anti-Islamic Identity Movement claimed responsibility for the action in Dresden via Telegram.
Among the suspects is a 25-year-old man from the eastern city of Chemnitz.
The Identitarian Movement campaigns against multicultural societies and spreads far-right conspiracy myths. In Germany, the movement is monitored by the German domestic intelligence service.