Berlin - German police on Monday raided
the homes and workplaces of a policeman and another person
suspected of planning "serious violence threatening to the
state", authorities said.
The suspects feared that Germany's refugee policies would
impoverish the country and so had begun stockpiling food and
ammunition and planning attacks, the federal prosecutor's office
said in a statement.
"The suspects see the crisis they fear taking hold as an
opportunity to capture left-wing political representatives and
kill them with their weapons," the statement said. It was not
clear from initial reports whether they had been detained.
Pictures on the website of the mass-circulation daily Bild
showed black-clad police, some in balaclavas, carrying out
searches.
The suspected policeman worked in the eastern town of
Ludwigslust, some 150 km (90 miles) northwest of Berlin.
Disciplinary measures have been initiated against him, the
Interior Ministry of the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern said.
Police also carried out raids on the properties of people
linked to the two suspects, but who were not themselves
suspects, the prosecutor's office added. One of these was also a
policeman, the state Interior Ministry said.
The suspects had been in contact with other people on
chatrooms.