Germany arrests eight suspected members of right-wing group plotting revolt

German police have arrested eight suspected members of a right-wing militant group driven by racist ideology and conspiracy theories who had been training in warfare for the downfall of the modern German state, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The suspects are part of an organisation formed no later than November 2020 called "Saechsische Separatisten", or Saxonian Separatists, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement. "If necessary, unwanted groups of people are supposed to be removed from the area by means of ethnic cleansing," the statement said.