The federal prosecutor’s office filed charges for the first time after the large-scale anti-terror raid against so-called Reich citizens in December 2022. There are 27 suspects, as the authorities announced on Tuesday in Karlsruhe. She accuses them, among other things, of membership and support of a terrorist organization. The proceedings are to be conducted before the higher regional courts in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Stuttgart. They must decide whether to admit the charges and schedule a trial.
Around 3,000 police officers were involved in a major raid against the “Patriotic Union” on December 7, 2022. 25 women and men were arrested that day on suspicion of plotting a coup. The entrepreneur Henry XIII is considered one of the ringleaders. Prince Reuss. 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. According to the investigation, former soldiers of the group also spoke surprisingly openly internally about the plan to break into the Reichstag building and arrest government representatives and members of parliament.
The investigators have compiled a total of more than 425,000 pages of files, around 850 folders. The amount of evidence is immense: the investigators listened to phone calls and observed meetings for months. Some of the suspects had spying software installed on their cell phones. The Federal Prosecutor General is investigating a total of 69 people from the “Reuss Group”.