Status: 13.10.2022 11:38 a.m
A woman has been arrested in connection with the allegedly planned kidnapping of Health Minister Lauterbach. The 75-year-old is said to have played a major role in the group that was exposed in April.
The State Criminal Police Office of Rhineland-Palatinate arrested a 75-year-old woman on suspicion of terror in Central Saxony in the morning. Elisabeth R. is said to have been the ringleader of a group that the federal prosecutor’s office had been investigating for some time. Among other things, she is said to have planned the kidnapping of Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach and attacks on the power supply in Germany with the aim of a blackout.
According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, the group had set itself the goal of triggering civil war-like conditions in Germany. According to investigative circles, the motivation was to get rid of the democratic Federal Republic and to revive the German Reich of 1871. The Attorney General’s Office in Koblenz had originally investigated in this procedure until the Federal Prosecutor’s Office classified the group as a right-wing terrorist organization and took over the investigation.
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According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, the woman made, among other things, specifications to promote and coordinate the group’s plans. She was involved in procuring weapons and explosives, repeatedly called for the project to be implemented quickly and gave concrete deadlines. She also conducted recruitment talks with potential association members.
Four suspected accomplices, all Germans from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Rhineland-Palatinate), Falkensee near Berlin and from the districts of Ammerland (Lower Saxony) and Landshut (Bavaria), were arrested on April 13. The association was therefore divided into a “military” and an “administrative” branch. The arrested woman is said to have been brought before the investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe during the course of the day, who will decide whether the detention will be carried out.