Police have arrested four alleged ringleaders of the banned far-right group “Kingdom of Germany,” including its founder Peter Fitzek.
The German men, aged between 37 and 59, were taken into custody on Tuesday morning as part of a broader crackdown on the extremist Reich Citizens movement, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office said.
The spokeswoman said the suspects are to appear before an investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on Tuesday and Wednesday.
According to the spokeswoman, two arrests were made in the German state of Saxony, one in Brandenburg and another in Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, authorities carried out a search at the home of a suspect in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has banned the far-right group “Kingdom of Germany,” a prominent faction of the Reich Citizens movement.
So-called Reich Citizens, or Reichsbürger, believe that the modern German republic illegitimately replaced the German Reich that was founded in 1871 and continued under the Nazi regime until 1945. They reject the legitimacy of Germany’s modern federal state and its laws.
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