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Germany police shooting: Four officers injured during raid on far-right 'Reichsbürger' Germany police shooting: Four officers injured during raid on far-right 'Reichsbürger'
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Four police officers have been shot in Germany by a suspect with links to a far-right movement.Four police officers have been shot in Germany by a suspect with links to a far-right movement.
The interior ministry said a 49-year-old man opened fire on the officers after they entered his home in Georgensgmünd, Bavaria, on Wednesday. The Bavarian interior ministry said a 49-year-old man opened fire on the officers after they entered his home in Georgensgmünd on Wednesday.
The suspect, who is in custody, reportedly calls himself a "Reichsbürger", part of a far-right movement that claims the current German state is illegitimate and is alleged to have neo-Nazi links. A spokesperson said police were conducting an operation to confiscate legally-owned weapons because of the suspect's "unreliability".
 More to follow "The 49-year-old immediately opened fire on officers," he added. "Four police officers were injured, some seriously. The suspect was slightly injured and arrested."
The suspect calls himself a "Reichsbürger", part of a far-right movement that claims the current German state is illegitimate and is alleged to have neo-Nazi links.
Joachim Herrmann, the Bavarian interior minister, and local judiciary and police officials were due to hold a conference on the shooting later in the day.
Germany remains on a state of high alert following a series of terror attacks by Isis supporters, including a suicide bombing in Ansbach and axe attack on a train.
But there is also growing concern over far-right movements, which have been gathering increasing support during tensions over the refugee crisis and sexual assaults in Cologne.
Centres for asylum seekers have been the target of arson attacks and racist graffiti, while police uncovered a neo-Nazi plot to attack refugee accomodation with explosives last year.