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| German police raid homes of men ‘plotting to kill left-wing leaders’ | German police raid homes of men ‘plotting to kill left-wing leaders’ |
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| Police in northern Germany have raided homes and businesses belonging to two men suspected of stockpiling weapons and plotting to kill left-wing leaders. | |
| The two men, one of whom is a policeman, are said to have created a hit list of names of left-leaning figures. | |
| According to Die Zeit, the men are thought to have “extreme right-wing” views, and were planning a series of murders. | |
| The police said the men had been using web forums where they had mainly spoken about Germany’s refugee policy. | |
| The men were arrested in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a federal state in northeast Germany. | |
| The policeman is believed to have worked in the small castle town of Ludwigslust, which is 40km south of the state’s capital Schwerin. | |
| But the men are not currently in custody, CNN reports. | |
| In a statement on Monday the German federal prosecutor said: "According to the results of the investigation so far, the two accused were in contact with different chat groups with other people," the statement said. | |
| "The focus of the discussion was the political development of the Federal Republic of Germany, especially the refugee and immigration policy, which they considered inadequate. | |
| "As a result, the accused feared impoverishment of private and public budgets as well as an increase in attacks and other crimes that they believed would lead to a collapse of the state order." | |
| According to Die Zeit, the Schwerin Ministry of the Interior, has announced further searches relating to people said to be non-suspected third parties. Among them was another police officer from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. | |
| The federal prosecutor's office is now investigating the case which it says could have caused “serious state-threatening violence”. | |
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