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DARKEST Day For Germany & Europe Since WWll as German Coup Trial 3 Begins
Germany Arrests 25 Accused of Plotting to Overthrow The Government
Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
BBC News 7 DEC 2022.
More than 3,000 police took part in the raids on 130 properties across Germany
Police carried out raids across 11 of Germany's 16 states
The group of far-right and ex-military figures are said to have prepared for a "Day X" to storm the Reichstag parliament building and seize power.
A man named as Heinrich XIII, from an old aristocratic family, is alleged to have been central to their plans.
According to federal prosecutors, he is one of two alleged ringleaders among those arrested across 11 German states.
The plotters are said to include members of the extremist Reichsbürger [Citizens of the Reich] movement, which has long been in the sights of German police over violent attacks and racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories. They also refuse to recognise the modern German state.
Other suspects came from the QAnon movement who believe their country is in the hands of a mythical "deep state" involving secret powers pulling the political strings.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser assured Germans that authorities would respond with the full force of the law "against the enemies of democracy".
Plotters Prepared to Kill For Their Ends
An estimated 50 men and women are alleged to have been part of the group, said to have plotted to overthrow the republic and replace it with a new state modelled on the Germany of 1871 - an empire called the Second Reich.
"We don't yet have a name for this group," said a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's office. The interior minister said it was apparently made up of an organisation "council" and a military arm.
Wednesday's dawn raids are being described as one of the biggest anti-extremism operations in modern German history. Three thousand officers took part in 150 operations in 11 of Germany's 16 states, with two people arrested in Austria and Italy.
Almost half of arrests took place in southern states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. More than one in five Reichsbürger are thought to be based in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg alone.
Justice Minister Marco Buschmann tweeted that a suspected "armed attack on constitutional bodies was planned". Ms Faeser said later that the investigation would peer into the "abyss of a terrorist threat from the Reichsbürger scene".
Who are the Reichsbürger?
So-called Citizens of the Reich reject Germany's modern democracy and refuse to pay taxes
Once seen as harmless cranks, they are very active and pose a high level of danger, says BfV intelligence chief Thomas Haldenwang
Last year they numbered some 21,000, but they have since grown significantly
10% are thought to be violent, and antisemitism and conspiracy theories are widespread
The federal prosecutor's office said the group had been plotting a violent coup since November 2021 and members of its central "Rat" (council) had since held regular meetings.
They had already established plans to rule Germany with departments covering health, justice and foreign affairs, the prosecutor said. Members understood they could only realise their goals by "military means and violence against state representatives", which included carrying out killings.
Investigators are thought to have got wind of the group when they uncovered a kidnap plot last April involving a gang who called themselves United Patriots.
They too were part of the Reichsbürger scene and had allegedly planned to abduct Health Minister Karl Lauterbach while also creating "civil war conditions" to bring about an end to Germany's democracy.
A former far-right AfD member of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is suspected of being part of the plot, and of being lined up as the group's justice minister. Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, who was among the 25 people arrested, returned to her role as judge last year and a court has since turned down attempts to dislodge her.
The suspected terrorist group uncovered today is - according to the current status of the inquiry - driven by fantasies of violent overthrow and conspiracy ideologie.... Nancy Faeser German Interior Minister
A prominent lawyer was pencilled in to handle the group's foreign affairs, with 71-year-old Heinrich XIII as leader.
Public Prosecutor General Peter Frank said Heinrich was among the suspects whom investigating judges had asked to be held in custody.
'Fuelled by Conspiracy Theories'
Heinrich XIII styles himself as a prince and comes from an old noble family known as the House of Reuss, which ruled over parts of the modern eastern state of Thuringia until 1918. All the male members of the family were given the name Heinrich as well as a number.
Descendants still own a few castles and Heinrich himself is said to have a hunting lodge at Bad Lobenstein in Thuringia.
The rest of the family have long distanced themselves from the minor aristocrat, with one spokesman telling local broadcaster MDR during the summer that Heinrich was an "at times confused" man who had fallen for "misconceptions fuelled by conspiracy theories".
'Crackpot' Movement Turns Radical Analysis by Jenny Hill, Berlin correspondent
Reichsbürger members have demonstrated alongside anti-vaxxers and Covid-deniers (indeed some share those positions) as well as QAnon supporters during mass street protests in the last few years.
They were there when a mob from a Covid demonstration tried to storm the Bundestag in August 2020.
Many have been surprised at the depth to which conspiracy theories in general have permeated German society - particularly during the pandemic.
I've experienced it myself while reporting on various demonstrations over the last few years.
As well as a shadow government, the plotters allegedly had plans for a military arm run by a second ringleader identified as Rüdiger von P.
They were made up of active and former members of the military, officials believe, and included ex-elite soldiers from special units. The aim of the military arm was to eliminate democratic bodies at local level, prosecutors said.
Rüdiger von P is suspected of trying to recruit police officers in northern Germany and of having an eye on army barracks too. Bases in the states of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria were all inspected for possible use after the government was overthrown, officials said.
One of those under investigation had been a member of the Special Commando Forces, and police searched his home and his room at the Graf-Zeppelin military base in Calw, south-west of Stuttgart.
Another suspect has been identified as Vitalia B, a Russian woman who was asked to approach Moscow on Heinrich's behalf. The Russian embassy in Berlin said in a statement that it did not "maintain contacts with representatives of terrorist groups and other illegal entities".
Several violent attacks have been linked to Germany's far-right in recent years. In 2020, a 43-year-old man shot dead nine people of foreign origin in the western town of Hanau, and a Reichsbürger member was jailed for killing a policeman in 2016.
The Reichsbürger movement is estimated to have as many as 21,000 followers, of whom around 5% are considered to belong to the extreme right.
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Third Trial Begins of German Coup Plotters Linked to Far-Right Reichsbürger
Germany Arrests 25 Accused of Plotting to Overthrow The Government
Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
BBC News 7 DEC 2022.
More than 3,000 police took part in the raids on 130 properties across Germany
Police carried out raids across 11 of Germany's 16 states
The group of far-right and ex-military figures are said to have prepared for a "Day X" to storm the Reichstag parliament building and seize power.
A man named as Heinrich XIII, from an old aristocratic family, is alleged to have been central to their plans.
According to federal prosecutors, he is one of two alleged ringleaders among those arrested across 11 German states.
The plotters are said to include members of the extremist Reichsbürger [Citizens of the Reich] movement, which has long been in the sights of German police over violent attacks and racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories. They also refuse to recognise the modern German state.
Other suspects came from the QAnon movement who believe their country is in the hands of a mythical "deep state" involving secret powers pulling the political strings.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser assured Germans that authorities would respond with the full force of the law "against the enemies of democracy".
Plotters Prepared to Kill For Their Ends
An estimated 50 men and women are alleged to have been part of the group, said to have plotted to overthrow the republic and replace it with a new state modelled on the Germany of 1871 - an empire called the Second Reich.
"We don't yet have a name for this group," said a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's office. The interior minister said it was apparently made up of an organisation "council" and a military arm.
Wednesday's dawn raids are being described as one of the biggest anti-extremism operations in modern German history. Three thousand officers took part in 150 operations in 11 of Germany's 16 states, with two people arrested in Austria and Italy.
Almost half of arrests took place in southern states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. More than one in five Reichsbürger are thought to be based in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg alone.
Justice Minister Marco Buschmann tweeted that a suspected "armed attack on constitutional bodies was planned". Ms Faeser said later that the investigation would peer into the "abyss of a terrorist threat from the Reichsbürger scene".
Who are the Reichsbürger?
So-called Citizens of the Reich reject Germany's modern democracy and refuse to pay taxes
Once seen as harmless cranks, they are very active and pose a high level of danger, says BfV intelligence chief Thomas Haldenwang
Last year they numbered some 21,000, but they have since grown significantly
10% are thought to be violent, and antisemitism and conspiracy theories are widespread
The federal prosecutor's office said the group had been plotting a violent coup since November 2021 and members of its central "Rat" (council) had since held regular meetings.
They had already established plans to rule Germany with departments covering health, justice and foreign affairs, the prosecutor said. Members understood they could only realise their goals by "military means and violence against state representatives", which included carrying out killings.
Investigators are thought to have got wind of the group when they uncovered a kidnap plot last April involving a gang who called themselves United Patriots.
They too were part of the Reichsbürger scene and had allegedly planned to abduct Health Minister Karl Lauterbach while also creating "civil war conditions" to bring about an end to Germany's democracy.
A former far-right AfD member of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is suspected of being part of the plot, and of being lined up as the group's justice minister. Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, who was among the 25 people arrested, returned to her role as judge last year and a court has since turned down attempts to dislodge her.
The suspected terrorist group uncovered today is - according to the current status of the inquiry - driven by fantasies of violent overthrow and conspiracy ideologie.... Nancy Faeser German Interior Minister
A prominent lawyer was pencilled in to handle the group's foreign affairs, with 71-year-old Heinrich XIII as leader.
Public Prosecutor General Peter Frank said Heinrich was among the suspects whom investigating judges had asked to be held in custody.
'Fuelled by Conspiracy Theories'
Heinrich XIII styles himself as a prince and comes from an old noble family known as the House of Reuss, which ruled over parts of the modern eastern state of Thuringia until 1918. All the male members of the family were given the name Heinrich as well as a number.
Descendants still own a few castles and Heinrich himself is said to have a hunting lodge at Bad Lobenstein in Thuringia.
The rest of the family have long distanced themselves from the minor aristocrat, with one spokesman telling local broadcaster MDR during the summer that Heinrich was an "at times confused" man who had fallen for "misconceptions fuelled by conspiracy theories".
'Crackpot' Movement Turns Radical Analysis by Jenny Hill, Berlin correspondent
Reichsbürger members have demonstrated alongside anti-vaxxers and Covid-deniers (indeed some share those positions) as well as QAnon supporters during mass street protests in the last few years.
They were there when a mob from a Covid demonstration tried to storm the Bundestag in August 2020.
Many have been surprised at the depth to which conspiracy theories in general have permeated German society - particularly during the pandemic.
I've experienced it myself while reporting on various demonstrations over the last few years.
As well as a shadow government, the plotters allegedly had plans for a military arm run by a second ringleader identified as Rüdiger von P.
They were made up of active and former members of the military, officials believe, and included ex-elite soldiers from special units. The aim of the military arm was to eliminate democratic bodies at local level, prosecutors said.
Rüdiger von P is suspected of trying to recruit police officers in northern Germany and of having an eye on army barracks too. Bases in the states of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria were all inspected for possible use after the government was overthrown, officials said.
One of those under investigation had been a member of the Special Commando Forces, and police searched his home and his room at the Graf-Zeppelin military base in Calw, south-west of Stuttgart.
Another suspect has been identified as Vitalia B, a Russian woman who was asked to approach Moscow on Heinrich's behalf. The Russian embassy in Berlin said in a statement that it did not "maintain contacts with representatives of terrorist groups and other illegal entities".
Several violent attacks have been linked to Germany's far-right in recent years. In 2020, a 43-year-old man shot dead nine people of foreign origin in the western town of Hanau, and a Reichsbürger member was jailed for killing a policeman in 2016.
The Reichsbürger movement is estimated to have as many as 21,000 followers, of whom around 5% are considered to belong to the extreme right.
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Germany Reichsbürger COUP Trial Begins-Plan For VIOLENT Overthrow of Government
Germany COUP Plot Trial Begins Amid High Security
Self-Styled Prince Heinrich XIII Among Alleged Ringleaders of Plan For VIOLENT Overthrow of The Government
The Guardian 27 MAY 2024
Defendant Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss on the first day of the second Reichsbürger trial
Reichsbürger Movement;
People who deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and reject its legal system
The most spectacular of a trio of trials of a sprawling group of far-right conspiracists who plotted to violently overthrow the German state is taking place in Frankfurt amid high security and huge media interest.
On trial are the group’s alleged ringleader, a self-styled aristocrat estate agent known as Prince Heinrich XIII, his Russian girlfriend, and seven other founding members including a former policeman and a former judge who is now an MP for the far-right AfD party.
According to federal prosecutors, the group planned to storm the Reichstag in Berlin with armed support via its paramilitary wing, to arrest members of the Bundestag, and to parade a shackled Olaf Scholz on German television in the hope and expectation of winning ordinary Germans around to their coup.
In the event of the group’s success, Heinrich, 72, was expecting to become the new chancellor of Germany.
The group are part of a growing movement known as Reichsbürger, or citizens of the Reich – currently estimated by authorities to number 23,000 – who refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of the modern German state and would like German borders to be redrawn to pre-1918 lines.
The Frankfurt trial, which opened on Tuesday in a purpose-built metal container building on the outskirts of Germany’s financial capital, is the second involving the plotters.
A trial involving the group’s alleged military wing, of former special service soldiers, police, a metalworker and a plumber, started in Stuttgart at the end of April.
A third trial, in which the group’s so-called esoteric wing, including a doctor and a celebrity chef – all of whom were viewed as the group’s cabinet in waiting – is due to take place in Munich in June.
A total of 26 people are on trial – a 27th, a man in his 70s, died recently in hospital in Frankfurt – and the three cases are expected to go on for a year or more. Gundula Fehns-Böer, a spokesperson for Frankfurt’s regional court, said: “It’s a challenge for us all, but we’ll sit here for as long as we have to sit.”
The alleged plotters were arrested in December 2022, when heavily armed forces stormed houses, flats, offices and a remote hunting lodge. Investigators had surveilled the group in the previous few months. Among the arrests made were a leading member of the QAnon conspiracy theory organisation, a clairvoyant, a dentist and an amateur pilot.
There has been plenty of scoffing both at home and abroad over the group’s apparent harebrained ideas, with evidence allegedly showing that some plotters acting according to the position of the stars.
Questions have been asked about whether the group truly had the ability to carry out its plans, with some accusing German authorities of exaggerating the claims of the danger the group posed.
But in their 621-page indictment, investigators have repeatedly stressed how well-organised the group was as well as how dangerous.
Police say the group had amassed more than half a million euros in gold and cash, as well as hundreds of firearms, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives.
They had acquired satellite phones to stay in touch after the paramilitary wing had carried out plans to cut off the national communications networks and electricity.
The group had waited for “day X” to start the coup, with one believing the signal was the death of Queen Elizabeth II. When police stormed the house of one member, he shot at them, injuring two police officers.
Sophie Schönberger, an expert in constitutional law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, and co-author of the book Reichsbürger, said:
“The chances of such a putsch actually succeeding were not all that high, but it could have unleashed a considerable level of violence and was capable of sending shock waves through the system.”
How Influential is Germany's Anti-State 'Reichsbürger' Movement?
Third Trial Begins of German Coup Plotters Linked to Far-Right Reichsbürger
Germany COUP Plot Trial Begins Amid High Security
Self-Styled Prince Heinrich XIII Among Alleged Ringleaders of Plan For VIOLENT Overthrow of The Government
The Guardian 27 MAY 2024
Defendant Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss on the first day of the second Reichsbürger trial
Reichsbürger Movement;
People who deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and reject its legal system
The most spectacular of a trio of trials of a sprawling group of far-right conspiracists who plotted to violently overthrow the German state is taking place in Frankfurt amid high security and huge media interest.
On trial are the group’s alleged ringleader, a self-styled aristocrat estate agent known as Prince Heinrich XIII, his Russian girlfriend, and seven other founding members including a former policeman and a former judge who is now an MP for the far-right AfD party.
According to federal prosecutors, the group planned to storm the Reichstag in Berlin with armed support via its paramilitary wing, to arrest members of the Bundestag, and to parade a shackled Olaf Scholz on German television in the hope and expectation of winning ordinary Germans around to their coup.
In the event of the group’s success, Heinrich, 72, was expecting to become the new chancellor of Germany.
The group are part of a growing movement known as Reichsbürger, or citizens of the Reich – currently estimated by authorities to number 23,000 – who refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of the modern German state and would like German borders to be redrawn to pre-1918 lines.
The Frankfurt trial, which opened on Tuesday in a purpose-built metal container building on the outskirts of Germany’s financial capital, is the second involving the plotters.
A trial involving the group’s alleged military wing, of former special service soldiers, police, a metalworker and a plumber, started in Stuttgart at the end of April.
A third trial, in which the group’s so-called esoteric wing, including a doctor and a celebrity chef – all of whom were viewed as the group’s cabinet in waiting – is due to take place in Munich in June.
A total of 26 people are on trial – a 27th, a man in his 70s, died recently in hospital in Frankfurt – and the three cases are expected to go on for a year or more. Gundula Fehns-Böer, a spokesperson for Frankfurt’s regional court, said: “It’s a challenge for us all, but we’ll sit here for as long as we have to sit.”
The alleged plotters were arrested in December 2022, when heavily armed forces stormed houses, flats, offices and a remote hunting lodge. Investigators had surveilled the group in the previous few months. Among the arrests made were a leading member of the QAnon conspiracy theory organisation, a clairvoyant, a dentist and an amateur pilot.
There has been plenty of scoffing both at home and abroad over the group’s apparent harebrained ideas, with evidence allegedly showing that some plotters acting according to the position of the stars.
Questions have been asked about whether the group truly had the ability to carry out its plans, with some accusing German authorities of exaggerating the claims of the danger the group posed.
But in their 621-page indictment, investigators have repeatedly stressed how well-organised the group was as well as how dangerous.
Police say the group had amassed more than half a million euros in gold and cash, as well as hundreds of firearms, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives.
They had acquired satellite phones to stay in touch after the paramilitary wing had carried out plans to cut off the national communications networks and electricity.
The group had waited for “day X” to start the coup, with one believing the signal was the death of Queen Elizabeth II. When police stormed the house of one member, he shot at them, injuring two police officers.
Sophie Schönberger, an expert in constitutional law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, and co-author of the book Reichsbürger, said:
“The chances of such a putsch actually succeeding were not all that high, but it could have unleashed a considerable level of violence and was capable of sending shock waves through the system.”
How Influential is Germany's Anti-State 'Reichsbürger' Movement?
Third Trial Begins of German Coup Plotters Linked to Far-Right Reichsbürger
Trial Opens of Esoteric Wing of Alleged German Coup Plotters
GP, celebrity chef and astrologer among defendants in third trial linked to far-right Reichsbürger
The Guardian 18 JUN 2024
Eight alleged members of the German far-right Reichsbürger are to go on trial accused of a plot to violently overthrow the state, in the third in a row of similar court cases being held across the country.
The defendants, including a GP, a celebrity chef and an astrologer, are accused of serving as the plot’s leadership council and, prosecutors say, were set to become a cabinet in waiting if the group’s plan to storm the parliament building and overthrow the government had succeeded.
They are charged with membership of a terrorist organisation and preparing an act of high treason. The group had plans in place to kidnap Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and parade him on television in the hope of winning more followers to their cause, prosecutors say.
The accused deny the charges.
The Munich trial takes place amid huge security as Germany struggles with fears about the rise of the far right following its recent success in European elections, and in the wake of a flurry of arrests involving people accused in separate incidents of spying for Russia and China.
At the centre of the alleged plot is Heinrich XIII Prince Reuß, a pseudo aristocrat and estate agent whom the group intended to appoint as its interim leader. He is on trial in Frankfurt alongside others considered to be among the ringleaders.
Defence lawyers in the cases have denied that the accused are terrorists and instead suggested they were conspiracy theorists who found each other due to their opposition to coronavirus restrictions. Lawyers for Prince Reuß have said he denies being violent or having made plans to kill people.
The alleged plot was first revealed to the public through a series of anti-terror raids across 11 German states as well as abroad in December 2022 after an undercover investigation by police.
Held at a high-security court in Munich, the trial of the so-called esoteric wing is, like two others taking place in Stuttgart (the so-called military wing) and Frankfurt am Main (allegedly the core plotters), scheduled to last until January but could, prosecutors have said, take years to complete.
“We have around 900 files of information and every day more and more pages are being added to them,” Laurent Lafleur, a spokesperson for the court, said ahead of the opening, explaining that the investigation continued even as the trials are up and running. Each defendant will be represented by two defence lawyers.
Due to the group being tried in three different locations, judges, prosecutors and lawyers of all the trials involving a total of 26 defendants are reportedly engaged in a frantic exchange of information, while the defendants of each trial can be expected to be brought to the other trials to give evidence, adding to the mammoth organisational task.
“It is a huge logistical effort,” Lafleur said. He said the court was prepared for disturbances, “whether from Reichsbürger or Querdenker, who might visit the trial,” a reference to the coronavirus denial movement Querdenker.
Among those on trial in Munich are Hildegard Leiding, 60, a member of the rightwing AfD party and an astrologer, who was allegedly destined to become the group’s “trans-communications minister”.
Together with a welder from the Bavarian rocker scene, Leiding was said to have used “spiritual criteria” to pick out appropriate candidates for the future government, including a celebrity cook from Austria, tasked with feeding the new regime a healthy diet, and a practising GP, described by former patients as “established and respected” in her community.
The woman, who is said to have become radicalised during the pandemic and specialised in a method of predicting the future through reading eggs, known as oomancy, was expected to become the health minister. She had donated €47,000 of her own money to the plot, most of which went towards arms training, prosecutors say.
After her arrest, her practice partner in a small town in Lower Saxony put a notice up on the door of their surgery stating that the news that she had been arrested for her alleged involvement in a terrorist organisation “came as a complete surprise for me and the whole practice team … we are shocked and distance ourselves from any such rightwing extremist ideology.”
There are estimated to be about 23,000 Reichsbürger in Germany, about 10% of whom are thought to be willing to use violence and 1,000 of whom are believed to be part of the rightwing extremist scene.
DARKEST Day For Germany & Europe Since WWll as German Coup Trial 3 Begins
A DARK Day For Germany is a Dark Day For Europe Since WWll
Olaf Scholz?s Humiliation Leaves German Power Vacuum in Heart of Europe
The Guardian 2 SEP 2024
Chancellor?s days are numbered after Alternative for Germany Far Right won regional election in Thuringia with 33 per cent of the vote
'A dark day for Germany is a dark day for Europe': European liberals react to German state elections
Val?rie Hayer, a French politician who serves as president of the liberal Renew Europe, has said that ?a dark day for Germany is a dark day for Europe. The election result in Thuringia and Saxony is unprecedented.?
?We shall not let Europe give in to racist, antisemitic, misogynist and homophobic movements,? she said.
Summary of The Day
The far-right Alternative f?r Deutschland (AfD) came first in Sunday?s election in Thuringia with nearly 33% of the vote and a close second in Saxony with almost 31%.
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, urged mainstream parties to exclude ?rightwing extremists?. He called the results ?bitter? and ?worrying?.
The chancellor said ?our country cannot and must not get used to this. The AfD is damaging Germany. It is weakening the economy, dividing society and ruining our country?s reputation.?
Leaders of the AfD demanded that their party be included in coalition negotiations in the two states.
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) said the results of the elections in Thuringia and Saxony are not only a signal for change in direction in the states, but also on the federal level.
Saskia Esken, from the Social Democratic party (SPD), said that ?all the (coalition) parties, but in particular our two coalition partners, must take the motivation from this election result to end these public arguments and pull together.?
Val?rie Hayer, the president of the Renew Europe group, said ?a dark day for Germany is a dark day for Europe.?
Petr Fiala, the conservative Czech prime minister, expressed concern and called for stepping up efforts to reduce illegal migration.
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