07 December 2022

Did Nazi That Coming

25 members of the right wing Reichsbürger movement have been arrested in Germany for plotting to overthrow the government.

It appears that the head of the plot was a self-styled prince,  Prince Heinrich XIII:

In a nationwide raid, 25 suspected members and supporters of a terrorist organization in Germany were arrested early Wednesday.

Officials said the network, part of a wider right-wing movement, was already well established with a concrete plan to overthrow the German state by force and install a new government. 

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The raids were announced by Germany's federal prosecution agency and German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann. The minister said the investigations were directed against a suspected terrorist network with known ties to the Reichsbürger movement. He said that the raids had taken place on individuals suspected of planning an armed attack on state institutions.

"The suspicion exists that an armed attack on constitutional organs was planned," Buschmann wrote.

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The search operation is reported to have covered 130 properties belonging to 52 suspects in 11 German states.

According to prosecution officials, the arrested suspects "belong to a terrorist organization" that was believed to have been founded at the end of November 2021.

The group "set itself the goal of overcoming the existing state order in Germany and replacing it with its own form of state, which has already been worked out in outline," prosecutors added. 

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Prosecutors identified the suspected ringleaders only as Heinrich XIII P. R. and Ruediger v. P., in line with German privacy rules.

The news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the former was a well-known 71-year-old member of a minor German noble family, while the latter was a 69-year-old former paratrooper.

According to prosecutors, P. R., who the group planned to install as the new leader of Germany, had made contact with Russian officials seeking to establish a new order in Germany once the Berlin government was overthrown.

It should be noted that this is not an isolated incident. The far right has been increasingly numerous and increasingly strident, and there have been repeated incidents where law enforcement agents have been a part of these organizations.

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