Germany fears radicalisation of Reichsbürger movement after police attacks
German authorities are increasingly concerned about the radicalisation of a movement that rejects the legitimacy of the federal republic and its constitution, after two violent attacks on police officers within two days. On Thursday afternoon, a man threw punches at police officers at a town hall office in Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt. A day earlier a man in the Bavarian town of Georgensgmünd opened fire on four officers carrying out a raid on his apartment, one of whom has since died of his injuries. Both men had self-identified as members of the Reichsbürger movement, which does not recognise the laws and institutions of modern Germany but instead adheres to the old German Reich that ceased to exist after the end of the second world war. Many, but not all, of its members are on the extreme right . The incident in Salzwedel’s town hall escalated after a 43-year-old man with his 34-year-old wife had refused to register their dog, telling the official that he did not recognise