German police raid suspected far-right groups

German police said Tuesday they had raided houses in four different German states, some belonging to people suspected of forming a violent far-right group called Storm Brigade.

They raided six houses belonging to suspected members of the banned group, police representatives said, and four others belonging to non-members. The far-right group had as its aim called for the "restrengthening of a free fatherland" with a "German moral code" as its basis.

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Checking for weapons

They are suspected of setting up the Storm Brigade organization, which Germany's attorney general said was the "armed branch" of the far-right Wolf Brigade organization. 

Police said they made no arrests. The object of the operation was to check if the suspects had any weapons, and to "confirm any suspicions."

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The houses were in the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony, Hesse and North Rhine Westphalia.

jns/rt (AFP, dpa)

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