3,000 police officers were mobilized and more than 130 searches were carried out. A huge anti-terrorist operation in Germany this Wednesday morning enabled the dissolution of a far-right cell and conspirators planning attacks, including one against the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament.
A total of 25 people who belonged to the small group “Reichsbürger” were arrested nationwide. In particular, they are suspected of having “made concrete preparations to forcefully invade the German Bundestag with a small armed group,” prosecutors said in a statement.
The risk of a far-right attack is higher than the jihadist risk
“We suspect that an armed attack on the constitutional organs was planned,” Justice Minister Marco Buschmann commented in a Twitter message, which conjured up “a major anti-terrorist operation”.
In addition to the 25 arrests, according to the public prosecutor’s office, 27 other people are the target of the investigation and are suspected of belonging to the criminal cell. “The continuation of the investigation will clarify whether there are elements of the preparation of a highly treasonable enterprise against the state,” add the prosecutors.
In recent years, German authorities have taken the threats from these far-right movements very seriously, ranking far-right violence as the number one threat to public order, ahead of the risk of jihad.