It is said that the far-right environment planned a coup, TV writes 2.
Many German media, such as picture And the Zeitmentions police work.
Houses, hunting lodges and car workshops must be searched. 52 people are suspected, of whom 25 have been arrested.
The individuals are said to belong to the Reichsburg movement, which denies the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany as a legitimate and sovereign state.
Among the 52 defendants are former elite soldiers and a former member of the Alternative for Germany party in the Bundestag, ARD announcer writes.
Check since August
Bild writes that investigators have tracked down the secret alliance around a man living in Hesse.
- At six o’clock this morning, police broke into a house in Wannsee, Berlin.
- Minutes later, the same thing happened at a hunting lodge in Bad Laubenstein.
- At the same time, the officers moved to about 30 estates in Baden-Württemberg.
- A car shop and carpentry workshop in Erzgebirge in Saxony were broken into
The federal security authorities learned of the “anti-constitutional group” suspicion at the end of August.
The investigation is being led by the Public Prosecutor, and at the moment the charge is based on suspicion of forming a terrorist organization, according to Zeit.
The People’s Republic will be abolished
According to the attorney general, the group had been preparing for unrest in Germany since November 2021, and was willing to use violence, he wrote. ZDF.
They formed a council, a kind of government. In addition, it was said that a military group was formed that carried out shooting exercises.
German police outside an address in Frankfurt on Wednesday morning.
Photo: Tillmann Blachhofer/Reuters
ARD writes that today’s action is linked to an already known investigation. It concerns four men and a woman who are said to have planned an attack on German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.
Many of the suspects in today’s work are also active opponents of the Corona measures in Germany.
About 50 women and men are accused of forming a terrorist organization with the aim of abolishing the People’s Republic and establishing a state modeled on the German Reich in 1871. The group has not advanced much.
People of influence
ARD He writes that, among other things, they planned to attack the country’s electricity supply.
Zeit He writes that the group was also planning to take members of Parliament, the Bundestag, hostage.
Since many of the detainees were former soldiers with special military training, the group was seen as particularly dangerous.
Officers from several special units worked together to arrest the suspects.
Of those arrested, ZDF writes, one should be arrested in Austria and the other in Italy.
According to Bild, many of those arrested are wealthy people with influential positions. Ex-Bundeswehr soldiers are also said to be involved in the coup plans.
According to the newspaper, many of them must have legally purchased weapons.
The members of the group must have gathered there several times during this year.
Led by a German prince
According to information from the ARD, a man named Heinrich Reuss is the center of the group. He is referred to as Prince Henry XIII.
According to the ZDF website, he has not yet been arrested. The prince has previously attracted attention for speeches of anti-Semitic content.
The Royce family distances themselves from the prince, describing him as a confused old man who has internalized conspiracy theories, ZDF writes.
Reuss was born into a princely house of Thuringia and, according to the inquisitors, was supposed to be the new regent of the country.
The 71-year-old has spoken publicly for several years about the creation of a new German Reich. In 2019, for example, he appeared as a speaker on a “Worldwebforum” in Switzerland where he claimed that Germany is not a sovereign country, but is still under Allied control.
In an online video, he describes the country and the judiciary as “corporations.”
Reuss is a self-employed financial advisor in Frankfurt am Main who owns a hunting lodge in Thuringia.
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