"Today in the morning, the Public Prosecutor General carried out searches in the apartments of four known suspects in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen, as well as a suspect in Thuringia on the basis of Federal Court of Justice decisions, Sputnik reported.

The defendants are suspected of having founded and participating in a right-wing terrorist group," the statement read. The prosecutors added that no arrests had been made yet.

According to the investigation, the suspects founded a national socialist organization in early 2017, and sought to obtain weapons, ammunition and materials needed to build explosive devices.