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Iranwire – Germany’s Foreign Ministry protested to the Iranian government after a court ruling implicated the Islamic Republic in a plot to attack a synagogue last year.
The ministry wrote on the social platform X on December 19 that it had summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires in Berlin to discuss the matter.
“It is intolerable that Jewish life was to be attacked here,” it said. “We will tolerate no foreign-steered violence in Germany.”
Earlier, the Düsseldorf state court sentenced a German-Iranian man to two years and nine months in prison for attempted arson and agreeing to commit arson.
According to the German news agency dpa, judges found that the defendant threw an incendiary device at a school in the western city of Bochum in November 2022 because the neighboring synagogue appeared too well secured.
The court found that the man was tasked with the attack by a former member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who had gone to Iran, and that the Islamic Republic was behind the latter man, dpa reported.
The German court said in a statement that the 36-year-old defendant threw the incendiary device at the school “to simulate carrying out the act, or at least corresponding efforts, to the initiator.”
It was established that “the plan for the attack stems from an Iranian state institution,” it added.
The defendant denied planning to attack the synagogue.
The school sustained minor damage.
In Germany, detailed written verdicts are generally issued a few weeks after the end of a trial.
The German Foreign Ministry said the court’s detailed reasons for the verdict will be important in determining “consequences and [the] next steps,” including at the European Union level.
