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Investigators have searched several apartments of suspected preppers in Bavaria.
According to the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, the raid was related to an investigation into six people with a "Reich citizen background".
The accused are said to have planned to cause a large-scale power failure in order to enable a political overthrow in Germany.
Officials from the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) and the State Criminal Police Office searched in the Upper Palatinate in Upper Bavaria in six apartments and outbuildings belonging to three suspects and one witness for further evidence.
These would now be evaluated.
accused of forming a terrorist organization
The procedure, where the ZET is located, has been going on for some time.
"The accused are suspected of having planned from September 2020 to cause a large-scale power failure in the Federal Republic of Germany by sabotaging power poles, which should enable other groups to take power through a political overthrow in Germany." The accusation is loud therefore on education and membership in a terrorist organization.
Preppers are people who prepare for possible disasters and emergencies, but also for disruptions to the social or economic order.
Many hoard appropriate supplies, others build bunkers or practice survival techniques.
»Reich citizens« do not recognize the Federal Republic and its democratic structures.
bbr/dpa
