In addition, two other people have been arrested in Austria and Italy. 22 of those arrested are suspected of belonging to a terrorist organization that was planning the coup.
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The German Public Prosecutor’s Office reported this Wednesday the arrest of 22 suspected of belonging to a German terrorist organization planning a coupas well as three other far-right sympathizers of that organization. 23 of the arrests have been carried out in Germany, one in Austria and one in Italy.
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 , whose main lines have already been elaborated”.
“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 from the system to all levels,” the statement added.
The defendants are united by “a profound rejection of the institutions of the State and the liberal democratic order” of the Federal Republic of Germany, which over time has led them to take the decision to “participate in their violent elimination”, and to begin to this with concrete preparations.
conspiracy myths
The members of the group follow a conglomerate of conspiracy myths consisting of narratives of the so-called Reichsburger ideology (Citizens of the Reich), which is an ultra-right movement that does not recognize the sovereignty of present-day Germany, and QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory that emerged in the United States. The group’s central organ is a “council” and it also has a “military arm” which is responsible for 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 arrested, 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 have occurred in the federal states of Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony and Thuringia, as well as a case in Kitzbühel (Austria) and another in Perugia (Italy).
The raids, involving more than 3,000 officers, 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 27 other defendants.
Source: Eitb
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