Photo by Christian Mang /Reuters BERLIN – In the early hours of Wednesday 7 December, some 3,000 police officers raided more than 130 homes, offices and storerooms across Germany, as well as in Austria and Italy, and made 25 arrests. Their target was a far-right group apparently plotting a coup d’état. According to the federal prosecutor’s office, 27 further suspects are linked to this as-yet unnamed terror network. That same morning, Germany’s justice minister Marco Buschmann spoke of “suspicion that an armed attack on constitutional bodies was being planned”. According to press reports the group had been preparing its coup...