{"id":2708479,"date":"2025-11-30T20:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2708479\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:44:44","slug":"germany-bans-neo-nazi-group-combat-18-launches-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2708479\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany bans neo-Nazi group Combat 18, launches raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u30a2\u30a4\u30c6\u30e0 1 \u306e 2 FILE PHOTO: Confiscated guns and Neo Nazi propaganda material is displayed during a news conference at a police station in the northern German Baltic Sea coastal town of Kiel October 28, 2003. REUTERS\/Christian Charisius REUTERS\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p>[1\/2]FILE PHOTO: Confiscated guns and Neo Nazi propaganda material is displayed during a news conference at a police station in the northern German Baltic Sea coastal town of Kiel October 28, 2003. REUTERS\/Christian Charisius REUTERS\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; Germany has banned the neo-Nazi group Combat 18 and raided the homes of its leading members across the country, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Two hundred officers seized phones, laptops, weapon-related objects, clothing and Nazi relics, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Walter Luebcke, a senior local conservative politician known for pro-migrant views, was shot dead, and a man believed to be a far-right sympathizer was arrested on suspicion of murdering him.<\/p>\n<p>Germany was also shocked when two people were shot dead last year near a synagogue in Halle in eastern Germany, while two years ago leaders of the neo-Nazi group NSU were convicted of killing immigrants in a spree that lasted years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s ban gives a clear signal: right extremism and anti-Semitism have no place in our society,&#8221; Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The terror attacks of the NSU, the terrible murder of Walter Luebcke and the act of terror in Halle last year have given us a brutal illustration of the real danger that right-wing extremism poses to our free society,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Combat 18 originated in Britain in the early 1990s. Regional interior ministers in Germany have been calling for a ban for at least a year.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the group had been carrying out activities that contravened Germany&#8217;s constitutional order. It is the 18th extreme right group to have been banned there.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gathered in Israel on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp at Auschwitz.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__extra_small__8Buss body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__extra_small_body__Bfz20 sign-off-module__text__LQAMP\">Reporting by Paul Carrel and Thomas Escritt; Editing by John Stonestreet and Kevin Liffey<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30a2\u30a4\u30c6\u30e0 1 \u306e 2 FILE PHOTO: Confiscated guns and Neo Nazi propaganda material is displayed during a news conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2708480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[784994],"tags":[762681,52896,762734,38674,763286,167646,762830,762694,765856,238274,764389,129083,762689,762802,762733,5326],"class_list":{"0":"post-2708479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-cwp","9":"tag-de","10":"tag-europ","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-hrgt","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-judic","15":"tag-meast","16":"tag-murd","17":"tag-pol","18":"tag-racr","19":"tag-rel","20":"tag-secur","21":"tag-soci","22":"tag-weu","23":"tag-5326"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2708480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}