BERLIN — German police have arrested seven men on suspicion of forming a “far-right terrorist organization” in the eastern city of Chemnitz and planning to carry out attacks against foreigners and political enemies, officials said Monday. The men are alleged to have formed a group calling itself “Revolution Chemnitz,” together with a seventh suspect who was arrested in a separate case last month. The seventh man, identified only as 31-year-old German citizen Christian K. for privacy reasons, is alleged to have been the group’s leader. A spokeswoman for federal prosecutors, Frauke Koehler, said authorities were investigating whether the men were involved in anti-foreigner violence that erupted in Chemnitz after the killing of a German man in August. “If the allegations are further substantiated, then investigators will have succeeded in conducting an important blow against far-right terrorism,” she told the Funke newspaper group.

Source: National Post October 01, 2018 08:16 UTC