Gruppe Freital

The Group Freital (also Freital vigilante, Bürgerwehr FTL/360 or FTL/360) was a German right-wing anti-Islamic group in Freital near Dresden.

History
Members of the group have attacked asylum accommodations with explosives and conducted several attacks on refugee supporters. Members of FTL/360 got support by some citizens of Freital, members of the group met in a pub of an AfD member on a regular term.

Members of Gruppe Freital had first met in the summer of 2015 during protests against a refugee home in Freital, Saxony. Timo Schulz, a neo-nazi originally from Hamburg, worked as a bus driver in Freital and was leader of the terrorist gang. On July 27, 2015, members of the Freital Gruppe blasts an explosive device near the vehicle of a politician Michael Richter (member of the Left party [Die Linke]) in Freital. Weeks later, members of FTL/360 threw fireworks at an apartment building housing refugees in the town, the attack only left shattered windows.

In March 2016 federal police GSG9 arrested five members of FTL/360 in Freital. Later, seven men and one woman were accused of terrorist crimes. An attack on a refugee apartment was assessed by the Higher Regional Court of Dresden (Oberlandesgericht Dresden) as an attempted murder: FTL/360 members threw an explosive device at a refugee home in Frietal, the bomb dropped in the bedroom of refugees while they were sleeping. The attack left one Syrian refugee wounded by broken glass as a result of the explosion.

In March 2018, members of FTL/360 were convicted for founding a terrorist organization, aiding on abetting crimes and attempted murder.