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Federal prosecutors charged eight people on Dec. 18 over an alleged right-wing terror cell called Letzte Verteidigungswelle, following police raids in May that detained suspects aged 14 to 21.The indictment in Hamburg accuses seven of membership in a domestic terrorist organization and lists charges including attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, arson and dangerous bodily harm after investigators linked the group to firebombings and plotted attacks on asylum accommodations.
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