Federal Prosecutor’s Office
Indictment after major “Reichsbürger” raid
Headquarters of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe. photo
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The raid shortly after St. Nicholas Day 2022 was a bang: “Reich citizens” probably wanted to overthrow the federal government and they are said to have accepted deaths.
On December 7th last year, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office had 25 women and men arrested in several federal states, Austria and Italy. Among them were the former AfD member of the Bundestag Birgit Malsack-Winkemann and a soldier from the Special Forces Command (KSK) of the Bundeswehr. The entrepreneur Henry XIII is considered one of the ringleaders. Prince Reuss.
The circle of suspects is much larger and is constantly growing as the investigation progresses. Many of them are in custody.
The accused are said to have planned to overthrow the political system in Germany. They knowingly accepted deaths. The investigators explained at the time that they had already drawn up the basic structures for their own state order. As head of state, Henry XIII would have. Prince Reuss should act. Departments had also already been distributed: the former judge Malsack-Winkemann should have been responsible for justice.
Targeted soldiers and police officers
The central body of the group is a “council”. A transitional government should have negotiated the new political order in Germany with the Allied victorious powers of the Second World War. “From the association’s point of view, the central contact for these negotiations is currently only the Russian Federation.”
It was said that a “military arm” should “eliminate” the democratic constitutional state at the level of the municipalities, districts and municipalities. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said soldiers and police officers were specifically targeted for the coup. According to the investigation, another plan was to force a small armed group into the German Bundestag.
“Reich citizens” are people who do not recognize the Federal Republic and its democratic structures. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution counted the scene as having around 23,000 followers last year (2021: 21,000). More than five percent – around 1,250 people – are right-wing extremists. Around 2,300 “Reich citizens” and “self-administrators” are considered violence-oriented.