# July 15, 2022.

**Published by:** [ClaytonDejohn](https://paragraph.com/@footindystry/)
**Published on:** 2022-07-16
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@footindystry/july-15-2022

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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 attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee. 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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