Overview
- The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court convicted the 50-year-old German‑Polish IT specialist on Friday, June 19, 2026, of terrorist financing and of providing instructions for illegal weapons and terrorist attacks.
- Prosecutors showed he ran an anonymous Darknet site called 'Assassination Politics' from May to November 2025 that posted fabricated criminal files and self-styled 'death sentences' naming politicians, scientists and officials.
- The platform published step-by-step guides for making explosives and incendiary devices and included sensitive personal data on potential victims.
- Authorities say he solicited donations in the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero as bounties for killings, but the court found no payments were made and treated that failure as a mitigating factor in the three-year term.
- The BKA had shut down the site during the investigation, the Federal Prosecutor had sought a five-year sentence, and the defence has announced an appeal so the verdict is not yet final.