Weapons and ammunition had been found in a group of soldiers and reservists: there is now initial suspicion of a racist motive.
Investigators see racism as the central motive of a suspected military sports group made up of soldiers and reservists in Lower Saxony.
In the group classified as right-wing extremist, there is “an initial suspicion that a xenophobic motivation may have guided the action”. That said a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Lüneburg of the German press agency. He said the same thing in the news magazine “Spiegel” (Saturday edition).
The group was exposed in raids in Lower Saxony, Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia in early September. Weapons, weapon parts and ammunition were also found. The prosecutor said it was about nine suspects between 37 and 53 years of age. It is being investigated because of the formation of an armed group according to Section 127 of the Criminal Code.
In the course of the investigation, according to information from “Spiegel” and dpa, it also emerged that the alleged leader of the group is in contact with a department head from the Ministry of Defense. The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) is interested in this because of suspicion of right-wing extremism.
As the representatives in the Defense Committee of the Bundestag had been informed in September, the man from the ministry has been banned from access to a “security-sensitive activity” until a decision has been made in his case. It was a civilian employee against whom the MAD had “security-relevant findings”, it said.
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