Overview
- The case, which opened Monday in Schwabach, was suspended after defense delays and a failure to agree on a new date within 21 days forced a full restart.
- Five men still face charges before a youth judge because two were 19 at the time, and a sixth defendant was separated for a psychiatric review.
- Prosecutors say one man gave a Hitler salute and others sang a reworded version of “L’Amour Toujours” with the line “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out,” and video played in court captured the chant.
- AfD lawmakers Franz Schmid and Benjamin Nolte were present that night, deny chanting, and are not charged, while local AfD official Michael Hörmann is accused of singing as reporting points to a past NPD membership document and a defense lawyer in the Die Heimat leadership.
- Prosecutors had first issued six penalty orders with fines up to €6,000, and the defendants’ rejection of those orders led by law to a public trial.