A suspected “Reich citizen” and terror suspect from the Bavarian Forest was questioned about the whereabouts of his weapons before the Regensburg Administrative Court on Tuesday. The former Bundeswehr soldier stated that he had disposed of them in a kind of farewell ceremony between Deggendorf and Hengersberg in the Danube. He couldn’t remember the exact location.
The Freyung-Grafenau district office revoked the man’s firearms license in 2021 and ordered the weapons to be confiscated. According to the judiciary, the reason was that the man was drunk driving and there were indications of the man’s security-threatening and anti-democratic efforts.
Since the man did not give up his weapons, his house was searched in January 2022. The weapons did not appear and the authorities imposed fines. This penalty payment notice from May 2022 is now going to court, and the gun owner is suing against it. He didn’t want to hand over his weapons to the “authorities” back then. He said on Tuesday that he found it humiliating that he – who had risked his life as a soldier for the state – was accused of not handling weapons properly.
Regarding the gaps in his memory that he brought up at the time, he said that he was in a different phase at the time, for example in the height of his criticism of Corona and with alcohol problems. The man is now in custody after the federal prosecutor’s office accused him of, among other things, membership in a terrorist organization in December 2022.
“Reich citizens” and “self-administrators” question the legitimacy of the Federal Republic. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes that around 23,000 people belong to this scene.