Anti-Imperialist Cell

The Anti-Imperialist Cell (

right-wing targets, ultimately resulting in no deaths.^[1]^[2]

On 25 February 1996, Bernhard Falk and Michael Steinau were arrested for involvement in the activities of the AIZ, and on 1 September 1999, were convicted by the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf for four counts of attempted murder, receiving sentences of 9 and 13 years imprisonment, respectively. Falk and Steinau are the only known members of the AIZ, which investigators assumed had a larger membership, and are presumed to be the only members as attacks by the organization ended immediately after their arrest.

List of attacks by the Anti-Imperialist Cell

21 November 1992 - Arson attack on the
law faculty of the University of Hamburg
.

17 November 1993 - Firearms attack on the headquarters of the
employers' association Gesamtmetall in Cologne
.

24/26 September 1994 - Attempted bomb attack on the building of the regional office of the Free Democratic Party in Bremen.
22 January 1995 - Explosive attack against the home of CDU politician Volkmar Köhler, the former Bundestag state secretary for the BMZ, in Wolfsburg.
23 April 1995 - Explosive attack on the home of the CDU politician Joseph-Theodor Blank, the Bundestag MP for Mettmann I, in Erkrath.
17 September 1995 - Explosive bomb attack on the residential building of the CDU politician Paul Breuer, Bundestag MP for Siegen-Wittgenstein, in Siegen.
23 December 1995 - Explosive bomb attack on the consulate of Peru in Düsseldorf.

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Germany: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000 U.S. State Department. 23 February 2001.

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