Germany Conducts Nationwide Raid to Thwart Right-Wing Extremists Planning Coup
- More than 3,000 officers deployed in nationwide operation
- Suspects planned violent overthrow of constitutional order
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German authorities carried out the biggest-ever raid targeting right-wing extremists, saying a nationwide operation thwarted a domestic terrorist group planning to violently overthrow the government.
More than 3,000 German law-enforcement officers, including hundreds of special forces, participated in searches across 11 of the country’s 16 states early on Wednesday. Twenty-five people were taken into custody, including a nobleman ringleader, a former lawmaker with the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany and at least one member of an elite military unit.