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Erfurt (dpa / th) - According to the right-wing extremism expert of the Thuringian Left Group, Katharina König-Preuss, the police succeeded in raiding the groups "Turonen" and "Garde 20", an important blow against the neo-Nazi scene in Thuringia .
"That will have an impact on the entire neo-Nazi structure in Thuringia and beyond," said King Preuss on Friday the German press agency.
In a large-scale raid, the police searched 27 apartments and business premises in Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Hesse on Friday.
It was mainly about the suspicion of organized drug trafficking and money laundering, as the Thuringia State Criminal Police Office announced.
At least ten people were arrested - nine of them had arrest warrants.
The neo-Nazi network against which the action was directed is, according to security circles, the "Brotherhood of Thuringia", which, according to the Constitutional Protection Report 2019, consists of the groups "Turonen" and "Guard 20".
The MDR had previously reported on it.
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According to König-Preuss, this is “one of the most dangerous neo-Nazi structures we have in Thuringia”.
The network's contacts also extended abroad.
In addition, it is behind numerous neo-Nazi concerts in Thuringia.
Thuringia's Interior Minister Georg Maier (SPD) told the editorial network Germany (RND) that the strike against the network had been preceded by years of preparation.
«The protection of the constitution was the initiator.
In the group known as right-wing extremists, it was then determined that there are further investigative approaches beyond right-wing extremism into organized crime, ”Maier told the RND.
There were searches on Friday in Thuringia in Gotha, the district of Gotha, Bad Langensalza and Saalfeld-Rudolstadt;
in Saxony-Anhalt in the Burgenland district and in Hesse in the Lahn-Dill district.
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