BERLIN: A German court on Friday handed a three-year jail term to a man who published online "death sentences" with calls to kill politicians, said to include former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz.
The 50-year-old German-Polish man, partially named as Martin S., admitted to operating an anonymous darknet platform called "Assassination Politics", during the trial held in the western city of Duesseldorf.
He was convicted of crimes including terrorist financing, providing instructions about committing terrorist acts and building explosive devices including Molotov cocktails, a court spokeswoman said.
Martin S. on the site called for attacks on public figures, and reportedly published lists of names in "criminal files" along with "death sentences" he had pronounced for alleged crimes such as "high treason", the court said.
He holds "far-right views," the court's press office told AFP.
