[citation needed] From September 11, 2018 EKO Cobra, the сounter-terrorism police tactical unit of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, was engaged by the Austrian authorities to search and arrest Sokol and Vorotnikov at their residence.
September 20 the European arrest warrant (EAW) for Oleg Vorotnikov on charges of illegal weapons possession and trafficking was issued by the Austrian police.
[8] The first hearings of the Der Krieg case were held in the Criminal Court of the city of Graz chaired by Judge Andreas Lenz on December 3, 2018[9] and January 16, 2019[10] May 9, 2019 Sokol and Vorotnikov both have been charged with creating and running a militant anti-fascist group and arms trafficking.
Citing a final version of the indictment, they have been charged with involvement in the creation and leadership of a militant group called ‘Der Krieg’ (‘The War’ or ‘Voina’ in Russian).
The group's activity, according to the indictment, is aimed at inciting murder and violence, causing serious material damage to governmental property, military infrastructure, culture monuments and sites of religious worship as well as inflicting serious bodily harm on officials on duty and perpetrating a range of other offences.
[11] On the appeal accepted by Judge Markus Mayrhold to consider at the Federal Administrative Court of Austria in Vienna, the details of the arrest and imprisonment of Sokol and her children in city prison of Graz were revealed.