Germany bans 'Kingdom of Germany' far-right group and arrests leaders


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  • Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Parliamentary group leader of Christian Social Union party (CSU) Alexander Dobrindt speaks during an extraordinary session of the outgoing lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) -Police arrested four members of a radical group seeking to replace the modern German state, the interior minister and prosecutors said on Tuesday, in the latest operation against a far-right movement flagged as a potential threat to democracy.

The raids against the Koenigreich Deutschland, or 'Kingdom of Germany', came after the interior ministry banned the group, which prosecutors said had established shadow institutions for a new state in line with a far-right ideology known as the 'Reichsbuerger' movement.

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