Overview
- Frankfurt prosecutors and the Hesse state criminal police led early-morning searches of seven homes and one garden shed.
- Properties were searched in Wetterau district (Hesse), Dresden (Saxony), Stormarn (Schleswig-Holstein), Brandenburg an der Havel and Potsdam (Brandenburg), and the Bavarian districts of Würzburg, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Aschaffenburg.
- Eight German nationals—six men and two women aged 34 to 78—are under investigation on suspicion of forming a criminal organization and committing document forgery.
- Prosecutors allege large-scale production, issuance, and sale of fake “Reich” identity cards and driving permits.
- Investigators seized phones, data carriers, documents, cash, a crossbow, a blank-firing gun, a knuckleduster, and three internet domains, and the probe continues.