Police arrested four contenders of the far -right group “Kingdom of Germany”, including its founder Peter Fitzek.
The German men, aged 37 to 59, were placed in custody Tuesday morning as part of a broader repression of the extremist movement of the citizens of the Reich, said a spokesperson for the prosecutor's office.
The spokesperson said the suspects should appear before a judge investigated at the Karlsruhe Federal Court on Tuesday and Wednesday.
According to the spokesperson, two arrests were made in the German state of Saxony, one in Brandenburg and another in Rhineland-Palatine. In addition, the authorities carried out a search at the home of a suspect in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
The German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt prohibited the far -right group “Kingdom of Germany”, an eminent faction of the Reich citizens' movement.
The so-called citizens of the Reich, or Reichsbürger, believe that the modern German Republic illegally replaced the German Reich which was founded in 1871 and continued under the Nazi regime until 1945. They reject the legitimacy of the modern federal state of Germany and its laws.
