Police officer hurt in raids in German Reichsbuerger probe - ARD

The German prosecutor's office declined to comment on the report immediately. ARD reported that following last year's raids on the suspected Reichsbuerger network, which resulted in the arrest of 23 people, authorities on Wednesday conducted searches involving 19 people.

A police officer was shot and slightly wounded as German authorities conducted searches in seven states in connection with investigations into the far-right Reichsbuerger movement, broadcaster ARD reported on Wednesday. The searches follow raids in December, when German police foiled a plot by members of Germany's Reichsbuerger movement to stage a violent coup and install aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss as national leader.

Reichsbuerger (Citizens of the Reich) do not recognise modern-day Germany as a legitimate state. The German prosecutor's office declined to comment on the report immediately.

ARD reported that following last year's raids on the suspected Reichsbuerger network, which resulted in the arrest of 23 people, authorities on Wednesday conducted searches involving 19 people. One of those shot an officer. The latest suspects were from southern Bavaria, northern Lower Saxony and eastern Saxony, and included police officers and soldiers, reported ARD, saying that some of them were believed to have formed other networks hostile to the state. 

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