Germany’s Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, has banned the right-wing extremist group “Nordadler”, ministry spokesman, Steve Alter, said via Twitter on Tuesday.
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Police measures have been activated in four German states, Alter said.
The group is mainly active online.
“Right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism have no place on the internet,’’ Alter wrote.
According to the ministry’s assessment, the group, whose name translates as “northern eagle”, follows a Nazi ideology and operates under several names.
Its members pledge themselves to Adolf Hitler and other high-profile Nazis, as well as using symbols and language from the Nazi regime.
They were also planning a Nazi settlement project with like-minded people in rural areas.
The group is described as highly anti-Semitic.
Its leader expressed sympathy for the attack on a synagogue in the German city of Halle in a public group on messaging service Telegram, according to the ministry.
The attack in Halle saw a 28-year-old German man try to force his way into a Jewish place of worship.
When he failed, he killed two people on the street and at a kebab shop.
He is due to appear in court from July.
The ban on Nordadler is the third ban on a right-wing extremist association by the interior minister this year.