Germany's government has banned the largest “Reich citizen” group. The extremist far-right organization calls itself the “Kingdom of Germany” and seeks to undermine the country’s democratic order.

Hundreds of police officers were conducting raids across Germany early on Tuesday after the interior ministry banned a hard-right militant group it referred to as the biggest arm of the so-called Reichsbuerger (Citizens of the Reich) movement.

Hundreds of law-enforcement officers in seven German states raided sites linked to a far-right extremist movement after the interior ministry banned one of its largest groups.