Germany Arrests 25 Over Alleged Coup Plot

In raids across Germany, the police have arrested 25 suspected members of a far-right group who were allegedly seeking to overthrow the state by force.

This comes according to the federal prosecutor’s office.

About 3,000 officers conducted the raids on Wednesday at 130 sites across 11 German federal states against adherents of the so-called Reich Citizens.

Prosecutors said members of the movement were suspected of “having made concrete preparations to violently force their way into the German parliament with a small armed group”.

They added that the 22 arrested individuals were German citizens and were detained on suspicion of membership in terrorist organisation.

The Der Spiegel magazine reported that one of the raided locations included the barracks of Germany’s special forces unit KSK in the southwestern town of Calw.

In the past, the KSK has been investigated over alleged far-right involvement by some of its soldiers.

Other suspects were arrested in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony, and Thuringia, as well as in Austria and Italy.