Germany bans right-wing extremist group Nordadler

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Tuesday banned the right-wing extremist group Nordadler.

In the early hours of Tuesday local time, numerous police raids were underway simultaneously in four German states, searching objects belonging to leading group members of Nordadler, reported Xinhua, quoting Germany's Ministry of the Interior (BMI).

"The ban of Nordadler is directed against an association that operates predominantly on the internet and in social media," said Seehofer, adding that "right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism have no place in our society, neither in the real nor in the virtual world."

According to BMI, the group's leader had said that Nordadler longed for the return of a Nazi state. And the leader of Nordadler had also spoken in favor of the attack in the German city of Halle last year when an armed man shot two people after attempting to storm a full synagogue.

This ban marks the 20th time that a right-wing extremist group has been banned by a German interior minister and is the third ban this year. In March, Seehofer promised that Germany would "relentlessly continue the fight against right-wing extremism even in times of crisis."