3,000 members of the police mobilized and more than 130 searches carried out.
A vast anti-terrorist operation in Germany allowed, this Wednesday morning, the dismantling of a far-right cell and conspirators planning attacks, including one targeting the Bundestag, the lower house of the German Parliament.
In total, 25 people belonging to the small group “Citizens of the Reich” (Reichsbürger) were arrested across the country.
They are particularly suspected "of having made concrete preparations to violently enter the German Bundestag with a small armed group," prosecutors said in a statement.
The risk of far-right attack higher than the jihadist risk
“We suspect that an armed attack against the constitutional bodies was planned”, commented the Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann, in a message on Twitter evoking “a large anti-terrorist operation”.
In addition to the 25 arrests, 27 other people are targeted by the investigation and suspected of belonging to the criminal cell, according to the prosecution.
"The continuation of the investigation will determine whether there are elements of the crime of preparing an enterprise of high treason against the State", add the prosecutors.
For several years, the German authorities have taken the threats of these far-right movements very seriously and have ranked far-right violence as the number one threat to public order, ahead of the jihadist risk.
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