Seven young German men were given prison sentences for involvement in violent attacks motived by far-right ideology.
A German court handed prison sentences of up to five years on Wednesday to seven members or supporters of a far-right militant group called the "Last Wave of Defence".
The men, all in their teens or early 20s, were convicted of crimes including membership in a terrorist organisation, attempted murder and arson for plotting attacks on refugees and left-wing activists.
The presiding judge in Hamburg said the adolescents and young men had absorbed far-right ideology and sought to "create chaos".
Some of them had carried out initial attacks, including setting fire to a cultural centre in the eastern German town of Altdoebern in October 2024 and hurling fireworks into a refugee shelter in the town of Schmoelln in January 2025, also scrawling Nazi symbols at the crime scene.
