Germany arrests minors due to alleged attacks on asylum seekers, migrants | Crime messages

Five minors accused a right -wing extremist group called “Last Wave of Defense” that aimed asylum seekers.

The German police arrested five people who were accused of participating in a right -wing extremist group who described itself as the “last wave of defense” who allegedly wanted to carry out attacks on asylum seekers, migrants and political opponents.

The arrests in the early morning on Wednesday in various parts of Germany followed arson attacks in a community center and a refugee home.

The German Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig said in a statement that “was particularly shocking that all hubs arrested today are said to have been minors when the terrorist group was founded”.

According to the federal prosecutor, 13 properties were also searched on Wednesday as part of the operation.

Four of the arrested NUR identified as Benjamin H, Ben-Maxim H, Lenny M and Jason R, suspected of membership in a domestic terrorist organization in accordance with the German data protection rules.

The fifth, Jerome M, is accused of supporting the group. Two of those arrested are also accused of attempted murder and tightened arson. Your age was not disclosed.

Prosecutors said they are also examining three other people who are already custody.

According to the public prosecutor, the group was founded in mid -April 2024 or earlier.

They said its members saw themselves as the last resort to defend the “German nation” and aimed to bring about the collapse of the democratic arrangement of Germany.

Two of the suspects in October in a cultural center in Altdubernn in East Germany, the prosecutors claimed and added that several people who lived in the building had only escaped by chance.

In January, two other suspects supposedly broke a window in a house for asylum seekers in Schmolln and tried unsuccessfully to start a fire by triggering fireworks.

They have the initials and slogans of the group like “foreigners from”, “Germany for the Germans” and “Nazi area” on the walls and swastika, the prosecutors said.

Also in January, three suspects allegedly planned an arson attack on a house for asylum seekers in Senftbenberg, but it never came about because of the earlier arrests of two men.

Politically motivated crimes in Germany last year rose by about 40 percent to a record high, a report by the Interior Ministry on Tuesday with particularly sharp growth in right -wing extremist violence.

In Germany, anti-immigrant and refugee feelings have grown in Germany, with the right-wing extremist alternative for Germany (AfD) expanding its number of seats in the German Parliament on an anti-immigrant platform in the elections at the beginning of this year.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz had also campaigned to dramatically tighten the border policy and to take an irregular migration to a standstill. Since his coalition, his government has also set a number of harder proposals, including the suspension of the family composition for many refugees and the implementation of plans for deportations in previously excluded countries such as Syria and Afghanistan.