The Berlin police confirmed today that, since the early hours of the morning, they raided 10 apartments of extreme right-wingers in an action to suppress hate speech on social networks.
Police spokesman Michael Gassen said that today's raids by the police searched the apartments of nine people who use Facebook, Twitter and other social networks and are suspected of spreading hatred.
Gassen says that the authorities want to emphasize that "the Internet is not a no-law zone" and that if someone publishes an illegal text or speech "they will not go unpunished", AP reports.
The suspects, aged between 22 and 58, are accused of spreading anti-migrant messages, anti-Semitic messages and songs with banned lyrics.
The investigation is ongoing, and the police are currently investigating the evidence seized during the raid, including computers, mobile phones as well as drugs, knives and other weapons.
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