German prosecutors on Thursday charged five Sikh men with being members of an international terrorist group, and accused three of them of allegedly plotting to kill political opponents in Austria and India. The men, aged between 31 and 41 years and of Indian and German nationality, have been accused of being members of the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), which calls for an independent Sikh state in the Indian subcontinent.
Two of them - the alleged ringleaders - were arrested in July, while the other three are still at large. Based in Germany, the men allegedly carried out the bulk of their activities in the western Rhein-Main conurbation. Their case was brought to the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt, which must formally decide whether to bring it to trial. The alleged ringleaders - identified as Bhupinder S B and Gurmit S - and Mandeep S, a German citizen, are suspected of plotting to murder the leader of a rival Sikh group at an event in Austria last year.
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