Among the eight detainees This Tuesday morning, seven of them Germany and one in Polandas suspected members of a far-right terrorist organization, there is a local politician of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), according to media reports. The organization is accused of planning a coup in the east of the country establish a state and society oriented towards national socialism.
One of the detainees, identified as Kurt H.has been treasurer of Young Alternative, the youth of the AfD in Saxony, since October, as well as a member of the municipal council of Grimma, in the same state in eastern Germany, said the ‘Spiegel’.
According to the Leipzig district AfD portal, Kurt H. is also part of the executive committee of the party organization, the weekly adds in its digital edition.
The arrest warrants issued by the investigating judge of the Supreme Court specify that the defendants belong to an association founded in November 2020 and calling itself “Saxon separatists”militant group composed of fifteen to twenty people whose ideology is characterized by racist, anti-Semitic and partly apocalyptic visions.
Four of those arrested – Jörg S., Jörn S., Karl K. and Norman T. – were founding members of the “Saxon Separatists”, to whom the local AfD politician and another suspect, Hans-Georg P. ., joined no later than August 2022, then in 2023, Kevin R. and Kevin M.
Spiegel He also points out that Jörg S. and Jörn S. are brothers and belong to the family of a famous Austrian extremist.
According to the prosecution, the members of the group are united by a profound rejection of the democratic order of the Federal Republic of Germany and they were sure that it was about to “collapse” and that the The collapse of the state and society will occur on a “day x” yet to be determined.
When this happens, the organization aspires to conquer territories in Saxony by force of arms and, if necessary, also in other eastern German states to create a state and society oriented towards National Socialism.
More than 450 police officers took part in the raid in Germany and as part of the operation, searches were carried out in around 20 homes, also in neighboring Austria and Poland.
According to the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution – the internal secret service – Thomas Haldenwang, these arrests reveal “the great and persistent threat that right-wing extremism represents for Germany’s internal security “.
He added that among the group’s members are very young far-right extremists with links to far-right circles on the Internet that glorify terrorists like the Norwegian. Anders Bering Breivikwhich left 79 dead, eight in Oslo and 69 in a youth camp on the island of Utøya, in July 2011.
Several of the suspects are also known to internal intelligence as belonging to the spectrum of the New Right, far-right parties or the neo-Nazi scene.
