The plot was revealed in April after four accomplices of the suspect, identified as Elizabeth R., without giving her age, were arrested.
The German federal judiciary announced Thursday the arrest in Saxony of a leading figure of a far-right group school, which was allegedly planning to carry out attacks in the country and the kidnapping of the federal health minister.
The plot was revealed in April after four accomplices of the suspect, identified as Elizabeth R., without giving her age, were arrested.
She is suspected of “participating in a terrorist organization and assisting in the preparation of an act of high treason against the state,” the Karlsruhe prosecutor’s office, responsible for terrorism and espionage cases, clarified.
Elizabeth R. is said to have been a senior figure in the group’s hierarchy, ordering them forward and coordinating plans. She was also allegedly involved in the efforts of two of her accomplices to procure weapons and explosives.
The far-right group’s intention was to create “civil war” conditions in Germany by carrying out attacks on electricity infrastructure to cause “chaos”.
Its protagonists also wanted to kidnap Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, the champion of strict measures to combat the new coronavirus pandemic, from the black sheep of the “Querdenker” (“non-conformists”), as opponents of government policy define themselves in Germany. in the field of public health.
The revelation of the plot in April caused an uproar in Germany. The social democratic politician, who now lives under permanent police guard, condemned the plans of this “very small but very dangerous minority”.
The group was divided into two arms, a military and a civil-administrative one, according to the prosecution. The suspect was also allegedly recruiting new members. She was allegedly already deprived of her pension because of her ideology and action.
Always according to the prosecution, he is a follower of the ideology of “Reichsbürger” (“Citizens of the Reich”) who does not recognize the Constitution that is the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and argues that only the Weimar Constitution applies, in other words of of the German Empire (1871). Adherents of this ideology envision the overthrow of the federal government and parliamentary democracy.
The conspiratorial far-right movement, under police surveillance, has been very active in protests against anti-pandemic measures and against the COVID vaccination.
Elizabeth R. was to be brought before a federal judge to decide whether or not she will remain in custody pending charges, the prosecutor’s office said.
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