Police arrested four members of a radical group seeking to replace the modern German state, the interior minister and prosecutors said on Tuesday, in the latest operation against a far-right movement flagged as a potential threat to democracy.

Germany's government has banned the largest “Reich citizen” group. The extremist far-right organization calls itself the “Kingdom of Germany” and seeks to undermine the country’s democratic order.

THE German government has banned the Reich Citizen group, a far-right extremist organisation calling itself the “Kingdom of Germany,” and arrested four of its leaders. Early today, about 800 police officers carried out co-ordinated raids across several federal states, searching properties belonging to the group and the homes of its key figures