German police on Tuesday launched a new wave of raids targeting The Last Wave of Defence, a far-right extremist cell believed to have been plotting attacks against migrants and political opponents.
Officers searched properties linked to 10 suspects, including a suspected ringleader, who are believed to have joined the group between April and December 2024.
They are accused of membership in a domestic terrorist organization, the federal public prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe said.
Police first moved against the group in May, arresting five male teenagers across several German states suspected of plotting violent attacks against migrants.
According to prosecutors, the group sees itself as defending the “German nation” and aimed to trigger a collapse of Germany’s democratic system through acts of violence, primarily targeting migrants and political opponents.
Eight suspects believed to be involved with the group, including the five arrested in May, went on trial in Hamburg earlier this month on charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grievous bodily harm.
More specifically, they are accused of planning and carrying out arson and bomb attacks on asylum seekers’ homes and facilities associated with left-wing groups.
No arrests were made during Tuesday’s raids, which targeted properties in the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schlewsig-Holstein, prosecutors said.
Two suspects are also being investigated over dangerous bodily harm related to attacks on suspected paedophiles.
Your smug sarcasm is neither welcome nor warranted. While I have not devoted my entire life and being to the cause, I have contributed to the cause as I’ve been able for more than 25 years. I’m on wikipedia because of one little thing from 2009.
Your little answer doesn’t deserve a huge reply, but in brief: Regime change doesn’t just happen. First, you have to get the people to recognize the problems. Then you have to get people talking about the problems. Then you have to get the people out protesting so they can see there’s others willing to stand up. Then, if you have a sufficient watershed event, you can get regime change. When some pieces of this happen but not others, you get things like the Wall Street protests from a few years ago that fizzled because there was anger and people were out protesting, but there wasn’t a plan for change.
It’s way more than one person can do. So you can try to blame me all you want because it makes you feel better about yourself, but I’m trying. I’m no Greta Thunberg or anything. If I throw myself all the way into trying to effect this change, I’ll end up in prison or dead with nothing to show for it. We all have to live our lives and do our best to balance our own wellbeing, helping out others locally, helping out others around the world, working for various causes as we’re able, financially supporting those as we’re able. And it’s harder because the fascists in the US try to keep us down as much as possible - tired and poor - precisely to control us, to make us too tired to fight.
But people are fighting, and so to flatly dismiss what people are doing is just disrespectful.
So I hope you’ll take a step back and understand that I was simply making a silly joke. German police are not going to come to the US to do anything. I know, the idea of a joke is a new concept to you. Maybe you are expected to read that from context and not make a fool of yourself with your bullshit reply. But oh well, you did.
The f*ck it is! You threatened us with war. You insult us on a daily basis. You kidnapped a head of state. You started a blatantly illegal war of aggression and bomb a country of >90 million people into oblivion (infrastructure included) and while it is going you’re thinking about starting another war in Cuba because … it’s fun? You bring us to the brink of WW3. Every rogue country will try to develop nukes because it is the only protection from the USA. We pay the price for your stupidity (and with “you” I mean “you, the people”). You voted for him twice. TWICE!
Would you say the same, when we have far right governments across Europe.
While I totally agree with your points made. I think you can’t blame all Americans for it. Not everyone voted for him and the ones who did, were fooled.
It is kind of hard to get rid of Trump with all the power and oligarch’s he has in his circle. Will be interesting what happens in the elections in November, hopefully a big defeat for the orange.
If my government would try to end democracy, insult allies on a daily basis, threaten war on allies, kidnap a head of state and his wife, start a war in the middle east, carpet bomb the country for weeks, talk about the next military adventure while the old one is still going, erect camps where people are concentrated, …
If all of that happens with a god-king-by-constitution leader who has the mental structure of a 5 year old, is a rapist, convicted felon and likely child rapist with zero respect for human life and dignity: Yes I would say the same. I would expect my fellow country men to end this or i would have exactly the same opinion.