The suspects are believed to be members of two groups that have assaulted left-wing activists and supposed pedophiles
The German authorities have raided the homes of suspected members of two “right-wing extremist” groups in a nationwide operation spanning a dozen regions.
In a press release on Wednesday, the Office of the Federal Public Prosecutor General reported that earlier in the day, hundreds of federal and state police officers had conducted searches at around 50 properties in Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein.
Two “right-wing extremist criminal organizations” – ‘Jung & Stark’ (Young & Strong) and ‘Deutsche Jugend Voran/Neue Deutsche Welle’ (German Youth Forward/New German Wave) – were at the center of the operation.
A total of 36 suspects, many of them teenagers and young adults, are being investigated for alleged membership in a criminal organization, according to the Federal Public Prosecutor General. Eight of them are also suspected of inflicting dangerous bodily harm. However, no arrests have been made so far.
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