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The German authorities announced their implementation - since Wednesday morning - of a major operation to combat "terrorism", at a time when the Public Prosecutor issued orders to arrest 25 suspects of belonging to the "Reich Citizens' Movement" organization.

German Justice Minister Marco Bushmann said the public prosecutor was investigating a terrorist network suspected of planning an armed attack on constitutional institutions.

In turn, the German Public Prosecutor issued - today, Wednesday - arrest warrants for 25 individuals suspected of belonging to the "Reich Citizens' Movement" organization.

A spokeswoman for the public prosecutor in Karlsruhe said - in statements to the German News Agency - that the authorities launched the campaign in 11 German states. No further details have yet been announced.

It should be noted that the members of the "citizens of the Reich" do not recognize the modern German state that was established after the collapse of Nazism, nor its laws, and refrain from paying taxes and social allowances, and insist that the "German Empire" still exists
In March, two years ago, the German police launched a massive crackdown on a number of headquarters of the Union of "German Peoples and Clans" of the neo-Nazi "Citizens of the Reich" movement.

The police said in a statement at the time that the grave situation the country is facing in the face of the spread of the Corona epidemic will not prevent the authorities from combating racism.
The campaign included raiding the group's headquarters in 10 out of 16 German states, during which weapons and neo-Nazi propaganda were seized.

The "Reich Citizens" movement, which has a membership of 19,000, does not recognize the German state as a whole, and seeks the return of the glory of the Reich empire, which was founded by Adolf Hitler starting in 1937.
The movement is known for its anti-Semitism and racism towards different races and religious beliefs. It also denies the crimes of the Holocaust against the Jews during World War II.
And the raids in March 2020 came about a month after a suspected terrorist linked to the far-right killed nine people of non-German origin in a cafe in the western German city of Hanau.