Overview
- Special forces entered around 6 a.m. Thursday during a court-approved house search on Am Ring in Lauta, the Bautzen district, according to police.
- Officers seized two harpoons and two machetes from the residence, the Görlitz police directorate reported.
- A police spokesman said the door was blown open to exploit surprise and reduce risk after an assessment that the suspect posed a danger.
- The 64-year-old was brought before a judge the same day, a detention order was executed, and he is now held in a JVA awaiting the main hearing.
- Local reporting recounts prior searches since 2022 that found cannabis, a pipe-bomb component and later chemicals, and describes the man as linked to Reichsbürger/SHAEF ideology.