After connections between two arrested people and the AfD became known, the party leader tried to downplay the Reichsbürger raid.Of Roland Preuss, BerlinThe AfD party and faction leader Alice Weidel spoke on Tuesday of a "desired walker coup", alluding to the age of several suspects. The large-scale raid against the Reichsbürger scene with 3,000 officials was a "boom", a "staging". The AfD leadership is trying to get on the offensive when it comes to Reich citizens. The investigation and the...
Reich citizens deny the existence of the Federal Republic and believe in conspiracy ideologies. But only five percent of them are counted by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as right-wing extremists. Why actually? source site
The judgment of the AfD parliamentary group leader from Saxony-Anhalt was clear. "Morally reprehensible," said Oliver Kirchner in a video interview with the right-wing extremist at the end of last week Compact-Magazine. The federal prosecutor's office had just had the members of a Reich citizens' network arrested, whom they accused of having formed or supported a terrorist organization. However, Kirchner did not find the alleged conspiracy to overthrow the political system reprehensible, but rather the fact "that the government is...
The federal prosecutor's investigations into suspected conspirators from the so-called Reich Citizens' Movement have fueled the debate about extremists in the civil service. A general suspicion against members of the security authorities and the armed forces is inappropriate, said the president of the reservists' association, Patrick Sensburg Rheinische Post. What is needed, however, is a "much more consistent crackdown" on people like one of those arrested, an ex-officer. He is known for his attitudes, there are criminal proceedings against him,...
Ramzan Kadyrov, ruler of Chechnya, has critics persecuted, tortured and killed - also abroad. A case in Bavaria brings back memories of the "Tiergarten murder". About the process and a tremendous suspicion: did a constitutional protection officer help?Of Christoph Koopmann and Annette RamelsbergerRamzan Kadyrov rules the Russian republic of Chechnya with an iron fist. Not only is he a loyal servant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he is even urging him to be even more brutal against Ukraine and the...
After the largest raid against the milieu of the so-called Reich citizens, arrest warrants have been issued against the first suspects. Eight of the 25 arrested were already in custody, said Attorney General Peter Frank in the early afternoon. They are accused of membership or support of a domestic terrorist organization. According to Frank, they were arrested in Germany, Austria and Italy.Around 3,000 officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Federal Police and the State Criminal Police Offices have...
The largest raid against the Reich bourgeois milieu has been underway nationwide since six o'clock on Wednesday morning. About 3,000 officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Federal Police and the State Criminal Police Offices are searching 137 objects in eleven federal states on behalf of the Attorney General. It is about the suspicion of the "formation of a terrorist organization". Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) spoke of the "abyss of a terrorist threat".According to information from Suddeutscher...
The witness comes into the state parliament with a cap pulled low over his forehead and a corona mask, he tries to turn away from the waiting photographers. The NSU investigative committee invited Tino Brandt on Thursday - who played a key role in the right-wing extremist scene in Thuringia in particular, but also in Bavaria in the 1990s. Brandt was considered a leading figure in the scene and drove the establishment of the group "Thüringer Heimatschutz", in which Uwe...
The witness comes into the state parliament with a cap pulled low over his forehead and a corona mask, he tries to turn away from the waiting photographers. The NSU investigative committee invited Tino Brandt on Thursday - who played a key role in the right-wing extremist scene in Thuringia in particular, but also in Bavaria in the 1990s. Brandt was considered a leading figure in the scene and drove the establishment of the group "Thüringer Heimatschutz", in which Uwe...
If young people stick to the streets, they are not yet extremists, says Germany's top secret service for the protection of the constitution. But when they talk about system change and expropriation, secret service agents prick up their ears.Of Ronen Steinke, BerlinThe President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang (CDU), recently advised at an event in Hambach Castle in Rhineland-Palatinate to rhetorically disarm. Haldenwang said: The climate activists of the group "Last Generation" are...
