Police raids against the far right are not uncommon in Germany — still sensitive to its grim Nazi past — but the scale of this operation was unusual. FOX13
Hessen, Frankfurt/Main: In a raid against so-called"Reichsbürger" masked police officers, after searching a house Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss lead to a police vehicle. Thousands of police officers carried out raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the government in an armed coup. Officials said 25 people were detained.Germany's 16 states.
Prosecutors said the suspects were linked to the so-called Reich Citizens movement, whose adherents reject Germany’s postwar constitution and have called for bringing down the government.Officers detained 22 German citizens on suspicion of "membership in a terrorist organization," prosecutors said. Three other people, including a Russian citizen, were held on suspicion of supporting the organization, they said. Another 27 people were under investigation.
Some of the group's members had made "concrete preparations" to storm Germany's federal parliament with a small armed group, according to prosecutors. "The details still need to be investigated" to determine whether any of the suspects can be charged with treason, they said. "According to current investigations there is no indication however that the persons contacted responded positively to his request," prosecutors said.
AfD's co-leaders, Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, condemned the reported plans, which they said they had only learned of through the media.
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