Terrorism – Hanover – raid on “Reich citizens”: investigations against LKA officials – politics
Hanover (dpa / lni) – After the raid on the “Reichsbürger” scene, an official of the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) in Lower Saxony was released from duty because of criminal investigations against him. The Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior announced this on Friday evening. However, the official had “been no longer doing official business for the LKA Lower Saxony for a long time”. The ministry made no reference to the investigations conducted by the federal prosecutor’s office on the exact allegations. The authority in Karlsruhe could not be reached for inquiries on Friday evening. ZDF had previously reported.
According to a report by the NDR, the LKA officer is not among the three arrested in Lower Saxony during the raid on Wednesday. He is said to have written in the field of state protection. The Ministry of the Interior did not provide any information on this when asked. According to dpa information, among those arrested is a former police officer who was also known as a corona denier.
Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday that the person concerned was known. However, it remains to be seen what the federal prosecutor’s office will find out in their investigations into the major proceedings involving 25 people arrested. In Lower Saxony there are about 900 so-called Reich citizens. About 50 of them can be described as right-wing extremists.
On Wednesday, the federal prosecutor’s office had 25 people arrested in one of the largest police actions in the history of the Federal Republic. She accuses 22 of them of being a member of a terrorist organization that wanted to overthrow the political system in Germany. Three other arrested are considered supporters. The 23 suspects arrested in Germany have been in custody since Thursday. With the exception of one Russian, all of them have German citizenship. The federal prosecutor also spoke of 27 other suspects. “Reich citizens” are people who do not recognize the Federal Republic and its democratic structures.
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