Overview
- SEK units searched the apartment and business premises of an AfD officeholder in Ilmenau and the Ilm district to secure evidence.
- Authorities also searched the Osthausen-Wülfershausen airfield after identifying the suspect as a pilot and flight instructor.
- Prosecutors allege assistance in preparing a high treason enterprise and support for the right-wing terrorist group known as the Kaiserreichsgruppe.
- Officials say the suspect sits on the Ilmenau city council and the Ilm-Kreis district council, and they have not publicly released his name.
- The network is linked to plans for the kidnapping of former health minister Karl Lauterbach and other violent acts, with four ringleaders convicted by the Koblenz Higher Regional Court in March.