Officers searched properties linked to 10 people, including a 21-year-old female suspected ringleader, who are believed to have joined the group between April and December 2024.
The suspects, aged between 15 and 22, are accused of membership in a domestic terrorist organization, the federal public prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe said.
Police first moved against the group in May, arresting five males aged 14 to 21 across several German states suspected of plotting violent attacks against migrants.
According to prosecutors, the group sees itself as defending the “German nation” and aimed to trigger a collapse of Germany’s democratic system through acts of violence, primarily targeting migrants and political opponents.
Eight suspects believed to be involved with the group, including the five arrested in May, went on trial in Hamburg earlier this month on charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grievous bodily harm.
More specifically, they are accused of planning and carrying out arson and bomb attacks on asylum seekers’ homes and facilities associated with left-wing groups.
No arrests were made during Tuesday morning’s raids, which targeted properties in the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schlewsig-Holstein, prosecutors said.
The aim of the operation was to prevent further attacks by the group and prevent suspects from destroying evidence, dpa learnt.
Two suspects are also being investigated over dangerous bodily harm related to attacks on suspected paedophiles.
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In July, Germany’s Federal Court of Justice determined that The Last Wave of Defence planned to “trigger a race war” to secure White Supremacy and ultimately eliminate liberal democracy amid “a spiral of violence.”
Members are said to have posted racist and anti-Semitic messages on social media and to have glorified the Nazi regime and its ideology.
Federal prosecutors believe the group is responsible for an arson attack on a cultural centre in the eastern town of Altdöbern, a failed attack on an asylum seekers’ home in the town of Schmölln and as well as a plot to attack asylum seekers’ accommodation in the town of Senftenberg.
