The organization’s full plan and details announced by the federal court – The organization had contacts with far-right and neo-Nazi groups, as well as reactionaries – Involved and undercover police
The kidnapping of Germany’s Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach and the overthrow of the government was planned by an organization that was dismantled thanks to the involvement of a secret police officer.
According to an announcement by the federal court, a special police officer from the Criminal Division of Rhineland-Palatinate was “collaborating” with the organization in question between November 2021 and April 2022 and participated in the exchange of messages between its members on the Telegram platform. Authorities now know details of plans for a two-week blackout that could lead to a coup and the abduction of Mr. Lauterbach while he was a guest on a television show, in front of the cameras. The person had been chosen by a “vote” among the group members and the health minister was then considered “the most hated politician”, mainly because of his policy on the pandemic.
Four people – all Germans – who were said to be working on these plans were arrested last April after one of them met the undercover officer and discussed an arms deal with him in various parts of the country. Another person, a retired teacher from Saxony, with a high position in the organization was arrested in October. Firearms, ammunition, cash, gold bars, silver coins and foreign currency were found and seized during searches, the court said in its statement.
One of those arrested has testified that the group’s plans included posing as a hostage for Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Solz. In addition, the organization would seek recognition abroad by sending representatives by boat across the Baltic Sea to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to request a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Germany’s new constitution would be based on the imperial constitution of 1871 – but without an emperor or king, but with women’s suffrage, “as an adaptation to modern times”.
As can be seen from the evidence that has become known, the organization had contact with people from the extreme right and the neo-Nazi scene in Germany, followers of conspiracy theories and critics of the government’s policy on the coronavirus pandemic. The first broad meetings were organized in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Thuringia.
A few days ago, the decision to detain the suspects was renewed, while the Federal Prosecutor’s Office is working on the indictment. The charges are believed to be related to “preparation of an act of extreme treason”, although, as German public broadcaster ARD’s first channel points out, there are still doubts about whether the plans were sufficiently specified in terms of timing , the place and the means.
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