Investigators have been taking action against suspected right-wing extremists in eleven federal states since the morning. Four people from the environment of an Eisenach martial arts group were arrested, said a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe on Wednesday.
Previously had the mirror and other media reports. Among the suspects is an active soldier in the Bundeswehr with the rank of non-commissioned officer. The 26-year-old served, among other things, with the armored troops in Munster, Lower Saxony, and was observed by the military counter-intelligence service, but still had “constant access to weapons and ammunition”.
The allegations against the accused include mirror according to “the attempted formation of a terrorist organization or its support”, “membership in a criminal organization” and “continued to operate a neo-Nazi organization despite an official ban”. The action of the security authorities is the result of years of secret investigations by a special commission of the Federal Criminal Police Office. The action is directed, among other things, against suspected members of the “Nuclear Weapons Division” and an ideologically related sub-group.
The right-wing extremist group “Nuclear Weapons Division” was founded in the USA in 2015 or 2016 with the aim of recruiting as many members as possible for violent and homicidal crimes. She is said to be responsible for five murders in the United States. In Germany, the authorities first noticed it in June 2018. There are indications of activities against the free-democratic basic order, it said. The “nuclear weapons division” became known in Germany in autumn 2019 for death threats against the Green politicians Cem Özdemir and Claudia Roth.
According to the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, the current searches are “an important blow against the violent right-wing extremist scene and a great success for the security authorities”. The recently intensified package of measures by the federal government against right-wing extremism in Germany is having an effect, Haldenwang told the dpa on Wednesday morning. “We take just as consistent action against attempts to succeed banned organizations as we do against the right-wing extremist martial arts scene.”
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