Group alleged to have been plotting armed takeover of eastern regions to establish a Nazi-inspired regime
Police in Germany have arrested eight suspected members of a far-right terror cell alleged to have been plotting the armed takeover of eastern regions to establish a Nazi-inspired regime that would carry out “ethnic cleansing”, federal prosecutors said.
Amid a crackdown on neo-Nazi militants, the German nationals calling themselves Sächsische Separatisten (Saxonian Separatists) were taken into custody on Tuesday in pre-dawn raids on 20 premises in eastern Germany and the Polish border city of Zgorzelec, with another seven suspects in investigators’ sights.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/05/suspected-members-far-right-terror-cell-arrested-germany
Author : Deborah Cole in Berlin
Publish date : 2024-11-05 12:28:00
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