Police in Germany arrested twelve men,
including one of its own officers, in a nationwide probe into an extreme-right
group suspected of planning attacks on politicians, asylum-seekers and
Muslims, state interior ministry sources and prosecutors said Friday.
Police in Germany arrested twelve men Friday in a nationwide probe into an extreme-right group suspected of planning
"attacks on politicians, asylum-seekers and people of Muslim faith,"
prosecutors said Friday.
At least three prominent German pro-migrant
mayors have received death threats, it emerged Thursday, days after police arrested a suspected far-right extremist over the assassination-style gun
murder of a local politician.
Hans-Georg Maaßen, head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, has not found concrete evidence that a video showing a manhunt of foreigners in Chemnitz was falsified, as he originally claimed, according to German media reports.
At a meeting on Monday, Saxony Anhalt's minister president Reiner Haseloff said that right-wing extremism is a Germany wide issue, attracting people largely through social media.
Köthen’s Social Democratic (SPD) Mayor Bernd Hauschild was shocked by calls for violence in the protests that followed a reportedly deadly dispute between two groups of men on Sunday evening.
A migrant was subjected to xenophobic insults and beaten up in the northern German city of Wismar Wednesday evening, police said, in an attack that comes as the country is shaken by far-right demonstrations against foreigners.
An extremist group accused of attacks at refugee homes and against left-leaning politicians is on trial starting this week, facing charges of terrorism.
As police launched nation-wide raids on Wednesday, reportedly against a "Reichsbürger" terrorist group suspected of plotting armed attacks, here's a look at what exactly the extremist movement is about.
Two weeks after a self-proclaimed "Reichsbürger" killed an officer during a police raid, German police are investigating within their own ranks for links to the extremist movement.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has recorded nearly 800 cases of crimes against refugee homes so far this year, German media reported on Wednesday.
