# July 15, 2022.

By [ClaytonDejohn](https://paragraph.com/@footindystry) · 2022-07-16

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Defendant Franco A. on trial at a Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on July 15, 2022.

Berlin (CNN)One of postwar Germany's most publicized terrorism trials concluded Friday as a former German soldier was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a [far-right](https://cnn.com/2021/10/25/europe/germany-far-right-vigilantes-intl-grm/index.html) attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian [refugee](https://cnn.com/2022/06/17/us/iyw-world-refugee-day/index.html).

The 33-year-old former army officer -- identified as Franco A. in accordance with German privacy laws -- was charged with posing under a false identity as an asylum seeker in 2017 and planning an attack that he apparently hoped would be blamed on refugees and migrants.

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