Germany: revolutionaries preparing an uprising against the WEF arrested
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In several large-scale raids, officials take action against
a terrorist organization from the so-called "Reichsburger"
milieu. The right-wing extremist group is said to have planned
the overthrow of the state. They are said to have planned a coup
and trained in part with weapons: the federal prosecutor's office
had 25 people from the so-called "Reichsburger" scene arrested.
Around 3,000 police officers were on duty in eleven federal states
on Wednesday morning, said a spokeswoman for the federal
prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe.
The terrorist organization wanted to overthrow the state system in
Germany and replace it with its own, the basics of which had already
been worked out. She would have accepted death for that. 22 of
those arrested are said to be members of this terrorist organization,
two of them ringleaders. Three others are considered supporters.
There are also 27 other suspects, said the spokeswoman. More than
130 objects were searched. "We don't have a name for this association
yet," the spokeswoman said. According to the findings, this is based
on conspiracy myths. The members are firmly convinced that Germany
is currently governed by members of a so-called deep state, a "deep
state", it said in a statement. According to this conviction, an
attack by a technically superior secret society of governments,
intelligence services and the military of various countries,
including the Russian Federation and the United States of America,
is imminent.
The people should have founded the group by the end of November
2021 at the latest. The central body is a "council". Similar to the
cabinet of a regular government, this has departments such as
justice, foreign affairs and health. "The members of the "council"
have met regularly since November 2021 in order to plan the
intended takeover of power in Germany and the establishment
of their own state structures," said the federal prosecutor. The
focus of the raids on the "Reich Citizens" scene is the East
Thuringian town of Bad Lobenstein. Heinrich XIII, who has long
been attributed to investigators as belonging to the "Reichsburger"
milieu. Prince Reuss is the squire of a hunting lodge there. The
71-year-old real estate entrepreneur residing in Frankfurt am Main
is considered the main suspect. In a new state, he was scheduled
to be regent, according to a press release. A former AfD member
of parliament and judge, Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, is also among
the accused.
A "military arm" should also "eliminate" the democratic
constitutional state at community, district and municipal level,
it said. The association is aware that there will be deaths.
"However, it at least accepts this scenario as a necessary
intermediate step to achieve the 'system change at all levels' it is
aiming for." Some suspected members of the military arm would
have done active service in the Bundeswehr. Above all, they would
have wanted to recruit members of the Bundeswehr and the police
for the planned overthrow of the state. At at least four meetings in
Baden-Wurttemberg in the summer, suspected members promoted
the terrorist organization and its goals. In the fall, suspects in
northern Germany specifically wanted to win over police officers
for the association. Members of the "military arm" scouted out
Bundeswehr barracks in Hesse, Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria
"to inspect their suitability for housing their own troops after the
overthrow."
The investigations of the federal prosecutor's office are also aimed
at a soldier from the Bundeswehr's Special Forces Command (KSK)
and several Bundeswehr reservists. The active soldier was deployed
on the KSK staff, said a spokesman for the Military
Counterintelligence Service (MAD). According to information from
the dpa, it is a non-commissioned officer. Accordingly, his house
and office in the Graf Zeppelin barracks in Calw (Baden-Wurttemberg)
were searched.
According to the information, people were arrested in
Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony
and Thuringia and one person each in Austria and Italy. There were
also searches in Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. The federal prosecutor's office
wanted to start questioning the first arrested on Wednesday, the
spokeswoman said. Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann
described the nationwide raid as an "anti-terrorist operation".
"Democracy is defensive: A major anti-terrorist operation has been
taking place since this morning," wrote the FDP politician on
Twitter. The starting point of the investigation is said to be
connections between members of the now dismantled association and
members of the "United Patriots" group, who were arrested in April
and are said to have planned to kidnap Federal Minister of Health
Karl Lauterbach.
"Reich citizens" are people who do not recognize the Federal Republic
and its democratic structures. They often refuse to pay taxes. Often
they are in conflict with authorities. The Office for the Protection
of the Constitution ascribes around 21,000 followers to the scene.
According to the authorities, around five percent of them, i.e.
around 1,150, are right-wing extremists. In 2021, the Office for the
Protection of the Constitution attributed 1,011 extremist crimes to
the "Reichsburger und Selbstverwalter" scene. During a raid in 2016,
a so-called "Reichsburger" shot four police officers in
Georgensgmund, Bavaria. One of them succumbed to his injuries
in hospital. The special task force wanted to confiscate the hunter's
weapons.