Knockout-51....Criminal Gang or Terror Group?

 This is a rather odd story.

Roughly halfway between Leipzig and Frankfurt (more so on the Thuringia state side)....lies the city of Eisenach. Forty-thousand residents, and mostly known as the town where Bach was born.

Somewhere around 2018/2019 (depending on who tells the story)....some group of German guys started a club, criminal gang, or terror-group  (again, depending on who tells the story).

As far as I can tell....it's strictly Germans....not 'guests' or EU folks. 

This guy....'Leon' started the group.  Their original intent?  They (probably no more than a dozen in the beginning....had some interest in right-wing ideology and were into martial arts (Kung Fu, Krav Maga, MMA) BS.  Some folks say over the next year or two....the KO-51 guys tried to get attention as private security (lounge-bouncer-status).  

This led the local law enforcement (the police/DA)....to eyeball them as some type of threat. However, in their view.....they weren't criminals or thugs....they were seen as terrorists.

Somewhere around 2021 (Covid  era)....one of the KO-51 guys made the statement about ending the lives of some left-wing extremists. This  got the KO-51guys deeper  into  terror status.

In this period 2020 to 2023....the group took up a anti-Covid agenda....which got them deeper into a terror status.

Then in 2022, there was this party in town.....where a 'suspected' KO-51 member  with an associate....got into a fight with a off-duty policeman (severe beating from the description given).

 This all led to a raid in early 2022....where four guys were identified  as Neo-Nazis....where a year goes by, and a state court says.....yeah, you can proceed on criminal charges, but the group isn't a legit terror group.

Various  raids occur, and charges continue to maneuver  toward terrorism....while the state court says 'no'.....they are basically criminals....not terrorists.

So this past week....the federal court of Germany came to a end-point....the  group is  criminal in their  existence....not terrorists.

But the fed court also said  a number of things that were handled on the four guys kept in jail....were 'wrong', and they want a complete review of the case.

This mostly a story of  a group  of a dozen-odd German guys who were hyped up on martial arts and having a anti-Covid view of things?  Well....I think it's a five-star script for a German comedy movie.