German police on Tuesday launched a new wave of raids targeting The Last Wave of Defence, a far-right extremist cell believed to have been plotting attacks against migrants and political opponents.
Officers searched properties linked to 10 suspects, including a suspected ringleader, who are believed to have joined the group between April and December 2024.
They are accused of membership in a domestic terrorist organization, the federal public prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe said.
Police first moved against the group in May, arresting five male teenagers across several German states suspected of plotting violent attacks against migrants.
According to prosecutors, the group sees itself as defending the “German nation” and aimed to trigger a collapse of Germany’s democratic system through acts of violence, primarily targeting migrants and political opponents.
Eight suspects believed to be involved with the group, including the five arrested in May, went on trial in Hamburg earlier this month on charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grievous bodily harm.
More specifically, they are accused of planning and carrying out arson and bomb attacks on asylum seekers’ homes and facilities associated with left-wing groups.
No arrests were made during Tuesday’s raids, which targeted properties in the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schlewsig-Holstein, prosecutors said.
Two suspects are also being investigated over dangerous bodily harm related to attacks on suspected paedophiles.
Would you say the same, when we have far right governments across Europe.
While I totally agree with your points made. I think you can’t blame all Americans for it. Not everyone voted for him and the ones who did, were fooled.
It is kind of hard to get rid of Trump with all the power and oligarch’s he has in his circle. Will be interesting what happens in the elections in November, hopefully a big defeat for the orange.
If my government would try to end democracy, insult allies on a daily basis, threaten war on allies, kidnap a head of state and his wife, start a war in the middle east, carpet bomb the country for weeks, talk about the next military adventure while the old one is still going, erect camps where people are concentrated, …
If all of that happens with a god-king-by-constitution leader who has the mental structure of a 5 year old, is a rapist, convicted felon and likely child rapist with zero respect for human life and dignity: Yes I would say the same. I would expect my fellow country men to end this or i would have exactly the same opinion.