Eight men were charged with forming a far-Right terror cell in the German city of Chemnitz and planning a campaign of violence on Tuesday.

The suspects planned to carry out a series of attacks in Berlin in order to foment civil unrest, according to details leaked to the German press.

The eight men, aged between 21 and 31, were arrested last October just two days before they allegedly planned to carry out their first attack in the German capital. They were reportedly attempting to obtain semi-automatic weapons at the time.

Formal charges were brought against them for the first time on Tuesday. The full case against them was not immediately made public but it is believed to rest on instant messaging logs.