German authorities clamp down on alleged far-right extremists
Posted on: May 06, 2026 19:34 IST | Posted by: Rt
The german language authorities feature raided the homes of suspected members of deuce “right-wing radical” groups in a nationwide performance spanning a dozen regions.
In a press release on Wednesday, the Office of the Federal Public Prosecutor General reported that earlier in the day, hundreds of federal and state police officers had conducted searches at around 50 properties in Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein.
Two “right-wing extremist criminal organizations” – ‘Jung & Stark’ (Young & Strong) and ‘Deutsche Jugend Voran/Neue Deutsche Welle’ (German Youth Forward/New German Wave) – were at the center of the operation.
A total of 36 suspects, many of them teenagers and young adults, are being investigated for alleged membership in a criminal organization, according to the Federal Public Prosecutor General. Eight of them are also suspected of inflicting dangerous bodily harm. However, no arrests have been made so far.
According to the German authorities, the two groups have existed since at least mid-2024 and have relied on social media platforms and online chat groups for recruitment and coordination.
The alleged members of the Jung & Stark and Deutsche Jugend Voran are suspected of advocating violence against left-wing activists and supposed pedophiles. At least some of the suspects are accused of assaulting such individuals, the statement says.
Properties belonging to suspected members of the Deutsche Jugend Voran were previously searched last year, with one of the leaders sentenced to several years in prison.
In January, several media outlets reported that 55 service members from the 26th Parachute Regiment – one of Germany’s elite army units – were under investigation for abuse and bullying, as well as Hitler salutes and Nazi-themed rituals.
Moscow has repeatedly warned of resurgent neo-Nazism in Germany, citing Berlin’s support for Ukraine as well as attempts to reframe the history of World War II and the Soviet Union’s role in it.
In an article ahead of the 81st anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, Russian Security Council deputy chairman and former president, Dmitry Medvedev, wrote that the process of ridding German society and Europe of Nazi ideology was never completed.
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