Anti-Muslim Plot Foiled in Germany
"In the search, pyrotechnics with large explosive power and further pieces of evidence were confiscated," said the prosecutor's office in a statement.
The group, three men and one woman, were arrested by German police.
According to the prosecutors, the four were accused of founding a far-right group and procuring explosives.
Prosecutors added that a previously unknown group, the "Old Schools Society", had been planning to attack mosques and hostels for asylum seekers.
The suspects were arrested in raids across five German states of Bavaria, Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, involving some 250 investigators.
Prosecutors added that they were still trying to determine whether the group had concrete targets or dates for attacks.
The suspects are to be brought before the investigating judge of the Federal Court on Thursday, reports say.
The suspected head of the group was from the Bavarian city of Augsburg, according to German media. Its 39-year-old vice president was believed to be from the eastern state of Saxony.
The new arrests came as attacks increased significantly against Muslims and immigrants, particularly in Saxony.
Over the past weeks, the group “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident” or PEGIDA has been holding weekly marches against Muslims and immigrants.
A record 17,500 people joined a PEGIDA march against the “Islamization” of Germany in the eastern city of Dresden on December 22 in the 10th demonstration in as many weeks, with smaller clone groups rallying in three western cities.
Following protests, asylum seekers have become a common target for extremist attacks including an attack on asylum-seeker accommodation in Rhineland-Palatinate which was set ablaze by suspected far-right activists in the early hours of Wednesday.
A renovated building in Troeglitz in Saxony was also set on fire in April before it could house asylum seekers.
Arsonists in the Bavarian town of Vorra daubed swastikas on walls and set fire to three buildings intended for asylum seekers in December 2014.
Source: On Islam
