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The silence after the clash - on Henry's situation from the Antifa East trial
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It was a sunny Tuesday in August, we were sitting together after another of over 50 days of trial in the Dresden Antifa East trial and the subject was also Henry A. He had not appeared at the trial that day because he had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital due to acute suicidality. Four days later he was run over by an S-Bahn.
Henry A. – has been in the sights of the Saxon state security service for a long time
Henry has been sincehttps://www.l-iz.de/leben/faelle-unfaelle/2017/09/nicht-am-telefon-190387"class="spip_out" rel="external">2013 in sightthe Saxon repressive authorities. In connection with investigations against the BSG Chemie Leipzig fan scene, he was investigated for years on suspicion of forming a criminal organizationhttps://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__129.html"class="spip_out" rel="external">§ 129 StGBdetermined. His phones were monitored for months, he was observed and his movements and contacts were recorded. Conversations with journalists, doctors and lawyers were also recorded. The proceedings were discontinued in 2016; The Saxon data protection officer later criticized, among other things, the way the investigative authorities dealt with the surveillance and the protected communications recorded: “In the summer of 2018, I reported the State Criminal Police Office to the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior for violating its obligations to cooperate in complying with procedural regulations within the framework of telecommunications surveillance measures (TKÜ) in accordance with Section 100a StPO in accordance with Section 29 Paragraph 1 SächsDSG The Dresden public prosecutor's office also formally complained about violations of the legal obligation to immediately delete recordings of communications from the core area of private life or with persons subject to particularly protected professional secrecy," said the state data protection officer in his activity report from 2017/18 (ashttps://www.datenschutz.sachsen.de/download/taetigkeitsberichten/Taetigke...class="spip_out" rel="external">PDF, a.a.O. p. 26 ff)
But the state's persecution of Henry did not end there. Further investigations emerged from the original proceedings, but these were also discontinued. In 2021, his apartment was searched again, initially on suspicion of involvement in an attack on right-wing football fans, and later on suspicion of narcotics. One search lasted around 14 hours and left a devastated apartment; another lasted several hours. Reliable evidence for the allegations made was never found; There were no charges here either.
What stands out is LKA investigator Patrick H., who was already involved in monitoring Henry in the proceedings from 2013. It later resurfaced in connection with the Soko LinX. The state persecution has continued for over a decade. And Henry was repeatedly targeted, proceedings were initiated, he and those around him were monitored, the apartment was searched and ultimately stopped. When he arrived in 2025https://www.generalbundesanwalt.de/SharedDocs/Press Releases/DE/2025...class="spip_out" rel="external">Antifa East trial accusedHe was already exposed to state investigations for more than twelve years.
The suspicion that police officers passed personal information about Henry to the right-wing extremist magazine Compacthttps://www.l-iz.de/leben/faelle-unfaelle/2021/05/unguilt-vertritt-2-...class="spip_out" rel="external">passed on, ultimately could not be proven. Back then, Henry repeatedly tried to take his own life.
Henry before the Dresden Higher Regional Court - 50 days of trial and no end!
Henry was not in custody, but instead came reliably to the trial for over 50 strenuous days of trial. His lawyers had tried to get the OLG to stop a little earlier on certain days of the trial so that Henry could take part in necessary therapy. The Senate rejected this on the grounds that the requirement to expedite proceedings applied because other defendants were in custody. It is also irrelevant that the co-defendants had expressly declared that they agreed to the earlier conclusion of the trial days, because the requirement to accelerate the proceedings was not at their discretion.
In July, Henry was admitted to a closed psychiatric hospital because of acute self-endangerment, followed a short time later by an attempted suicide. When he didn't show up for the trial on that sunny Tuesday in August, he was back in the psychiatric ward; a judge had temporarily committed him. Now a dispute arose about his ability to stand trial because there were two conflicting medical reports: one doctor said Henry needed a three-month break from the trial, and another psychiatrist thought Henry was fit to stand trial. The Higher Regional Court postponed the application for a senior report and continued the hearing the following Wednesday as if nothing had happened: Henry had been brought in by the police from the psychiatric ward like a piece of furniture. So he sat there, withhttps://psychopharmakon.de/tavor"class="spip_out" rel="external">Tavorsedated.
The collision
Just three days later, it was Saturday afternoon at 1:35 p.m., Henry was hit by an S-Bahn at the MDR stop in Leipzig and was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Henry lay like thathttps://taz.de/Angeklagter-Antifaschist/!6211670/"class="spip_out" rel="external">taz reports, in a coma, the OLG Senate wanted to obtain an opinion on Henry's ability to stand trial - as if a person in a coma could take part in a criminal trial.
Finally, on September 2, 2026, press spokeswoman Meike Schaaf said when asked, the Senate separated Henry's proceedings.
The defense attorneys explained in court on September 8th: "What happened to Henry A. shocks us deeply. He attempted suicide on August 15th, 2026, is seriously injured and has been in a coma ever since. His further fate is uncertain. Our condolences go out to him and his relatives. The main hearing will now continue without him, but will be marked by his absence."
The silence
The news about Henry's attempt to take his own life seemed to be hidden in a strange silence, withdrawn, only passed on behind closed doors. Just as other things are kept quiet about the trial, Henry now finds himself in an in-between world with his decision that it would be better for him to die than to continue to be exposed to the pressure of the trial. Days passed, it turned into weeks. In the close circle of family and friends, the consternation, the sadness, the pain and the anger were so great. Exhaustion, emptiness and again: silence.
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