
Tuesday 19, September
Berlin apartments raided in crackdown on neo-Nazi group
On Tuesday morning, 28 homes were raided in cities across Germany – the crackdown came after Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced a ban on the right-wing extremist group Hammerskins Germany.
According to a police spokesperson, two properties were raided in Berlin – an apartment on Strausberger Straße in Alt-Hohenschönhausen and another on Anton Saefkow-Platz in Lichtenberg – the home addresses of two reported Hammerskins Germany members.
The ministry has also banned the extremist group’s various regional chapters and its subgroup Crew 38. Hammerskins Germany has about 130 members and, according to the Federal Ministry’s definition, are “against the constitutional order” of Germany.
As well as the two properties in Berlin, raids took places in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Thuringia. Although little is known about the right-wing organisation, it’s been established that Hammerskins Germany emerged as an offshoot of the Hammerskins Nation, a white supremacist group which was founded in the USA in 1988.