Right -wing extremism: right -wing terrorists? The police arrested very young suspects

The allegations weigh heavily, but the young age of the accused seems even more frightening: the federal prosecutor’s office acted against a presumed right terrorist group in several federal states early Wednesday morning. The top law enforcement authority has five suspects arrested. They are between 14 and 18 years old.

In one case of supporters – the young people are a right -wing extremist terrorist association that calls themselves “last wave of defense”, according to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. With arson attacks on asylum seekers’ homes and left -wing institutions, the group wanted to bring the democratic system of the Federal Republic to collapse. She sees herself as the last instance to defend the “German nation”, according to a statement by the Karlsruhe authority.

According to the information, more than 220 police officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Federal Police as well as police forces from Brandenburg, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Thuringia and Middle Hesse were involved in the arrests and searches.

Brand attacks in Brandenburg and Thuringia

The group’s federal prosecutor is expected to expect three brutal attacks and attack plans. In some cases, they are said to have been planned or committed by the recently arrested, partly of three other accused who are already in custody. It is about an arson attack on a cultural center in Altdöbern in southern Brandenburg, an attempted but unsuccessful attack on an asylum seeker home in Schmölln in Thuringia and attack plans for asylum accommodation in Senftenberg in Brandenburg.

The attack in Senftenberg could probably be prevented thanks to information from a reporter team from “Stern”/RTL. In February, investigators in Saxony, according to the Dresden General Prosecutor’s Office, searched an apartment and another property and found explosives in the form of two spherical bombs, impact rings, one-handed knives, ammunition, shotgun and software weapons. A 21-year-old German was arrested. The research team’s research also helped to clarify the attack on the cultural center in Altdöbern.

Judge decides on pre -trial detention

According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Wismar and district of Rostock), Brandenburg (Oberspreewald-Lausitz district) and Hesse (Lahn-Dill-Kreis), the five prosecutors arrested on Wednesday. The police searched a total of 13 objects there as well as in Saxony (Leipzig district) and Thuringia (district of Altenburger Land and Ilm-Kreis).

The young people should be brought to Karlsruhe during the day and presented the investigative judge at the Federal Court of Justice. This decides whether they are in custody. Except for one, all suspected minors are. Due to their age, some of them with their parents have to appear in front of the investigative judge in Karlsruhe.

At the same time, around 100 police forces in connection with an investigation into an right-wing extremist chat group of young people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the districts of Northwest Mecklenburg and Rostock were searching for the measures of the federal prosecutor. In the group, several people are said to have exchanged right -wing extremists and called for crimes, as the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) announced. According to the information, the accused are majority of adolescents and occasionally young people.