Germany has banned a far-right magazine, the country's interior minister announced Tuesday, accusing the publication of incitement against Jews and other minorities.
Nancy Faeser said in a statement announcing the ban that COMPACT magazine was "a key mouthpiece for the far-right scene".
The ban "shows that we are acting against the intellectual arsonists who create a climate of hatred and violence towards refugees and migrants and who want to bring down the democratic state," she said.
"This magazine promotes unspeakable incitement against Jews, people with an immigrant background and against our parliamentary democracy," Faeser added.
Police raided the monthly magazine's premises in four different regions on Tuesday morning, seizing "assets and other evidence", according to the interior ministry.
COMPACT claims to sell 40,000 copies a month and also produces videos.
In 2021 the company that owns the magazine had already been described by German domestic intelligence as "extremist, nationalist and hostile to minorities".
Run by the far-right journalist Juergen Elsaesser, COMPACT describes its editorial line as "patriotic".
As of Tuesday morning COMPACT's homepage and several of its social media channels were still online, despite the ban.
They featured articles supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and castigating "climate terrorists", as well as advocating "peace and friendship" with Russia.
COMPACT's homepage also featured a petition in support of MEP Maximilian Krah, who was thrown out of the AfD's group of deputies in the European parliament after saying that not every member of the Nazis' notorious SS was "automatically a criminal".
Faeser's move comes against the backdrop of growing electoral success for the AfD.
In June's European elections the party achieved its highest ever share of the vote at 15.9 percent, coming second behind the centre-right CDU/CSU.
The party is widely expected to come first in three state elections in eastern Germany this autumn, although it is unlikely that any other party will enter a coalition with it.