The German Prosecutor’s Office has reported the arrest of 25 suspected ultra-rightists, 22 of them suspected of belonging to a terrorist organization who was planning a coup, as well as three other sympathizers.
Among the detainees is Prince Heinrich XII, considered by the German authorities to be the leader of the far-right group that intended to carry out said coup.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the suspects belong to a terrorist organization founded, at the latest, at the end of november last year“which has set itself the goal of ending the established state order in Germany and replacing it with its own form of state, the broad outlines of which have already been drawn up.”
“The members of the organization are aware that this plan can only be carried out through the use of military means and violence against representatives of the State”, which includes deaths, which they accept as an “intermediate step to achieve ‘change of the system to all levels,'” the statement added. The defendants are united by “a profound rejection of state institutions and the liberal-democratic order” of the Federal Republic of Germany, which has led them over time to take the decision to “participate in their violent elimination” and to begin concrete preparations for this.
The members of the group follow a conglomerate of conspiracy myths consisting of narratives of the so-called ideology of the Reichsbürger (Citizens of the Reich) – a far-right movement that does not recognize the sovereignty of current Germany – and QAnon.
The central body of the group is a “council” and it also has a “military arm”, to which corresponds the planned seizure of power by force of arms. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, some of the members of the organization carried out active service in the German army in the past. The 22 alleged members of the organization, of which two acted as leaders, are German citizens, as are two of the three sympathizers arrested, while the third is a Russian citizen.
The arrests occurred within the framework of the largest anti-terrorist operation that the country remembers. More than 3,000 agents have acted in eleven different federal states, including Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony and Thuringia, as well as one case in Kitzbühel (Austria) and another in Perugia (Italy).
The raids are still ongoing and are also taking place in the states of Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. The operation is also directed against another 27 defendants.
Source: Lasexta
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