"Today in the morning, the Public Prosecutor General carried out searches in the apartments of four known suspects in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen, as well as a suspect in Thuringia on the basis of Federal Court of Justice decisions. The defendants are suspected of having founded and participating in a right-wing terrorist group," the statement read.
The prosecutors added that no arrests had been made yet.
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According to the investigation, the suspects founded a national socialist organization in early 2017, and sought to obtain weapons, ammunition and materials needed to build explosive devices.
