UK and Europe team up to battle far-Right terror

BRITAIN'S intelligence agencies are working with counterparts abroad to thwart a spike in Right-wing terrorist activity in the UK, sources said last night.

- Marco Giannangeli

MI6 has launched an operation with colleagues in Germany, France and Spain following information that elements from terror cells in each are coordinating with British groups to plan at least one attack.

It follows a raid last December in which self-declared Prince Heinrich XIII, a 71-year-old aristocrat, was arrested in Mainz for allegedly plotting a coup in Germany with 25 other members of his "Reich Citizens" movement.

According to highly placed sources, one avenue being pursued by both MI5 and MI6 is the potential targeting of a major Ministry of Defence facility.

MI5 assumed responsibility for tackling Right-wing terrorism in 2020. Security at the Defence Munitions facility at Kineton in the West Midlands has already been tightened after intelligence that it is on the group's list of targets.