“We will examine in detail which security measures we need to revise,” said the deputy speaker of the German lower house
The Bundestag has announced that it is reviewing its security apparatus after the dismantling the extremist network who was planning an attack on the German Parliament in the context coup.
“We will examine in detail which security measures we need to revise,” the deputy speaker of the German lower house, environmentalist Katrin Göring-Eckart, told the Funke Group newspapers, two days after the plan was revealed. armed attack on the Bundestag.
“Apparently there is also a connection of this network with her parliamentary group AfD“, of the far-right Alternative for Germany, said referring to the arrest of judge Birgit Malzak-Winkemann, a former AfD member of parliament from 2017 to 2021.
Twenty-five people have been arrested, including one prince and members of the special forces of the army, during the operation of the German police against the core of that which served the ideology of the “Reichsbürger” (Citizens of the Reich), an extremist movement that was strengthened during the period of the pandemic and the strength of the restrictions meters. The investigations are aimed at 54 people in total and it is likely that there will be new arrests.
Yesterday, Chancellor Olaf Solz expressed concern about the network’s ties to the AfD.
“The fact that a former AfD MP is among the suspects is obviously remarkable and very serious,” Olaf Solz said during a press conference.
Social Democrat MP Sebastian Hartmann, an expert on domestic policy, demanded that “all of Ms Malzak-Winkemann’s contacts in the Bundestag be urgently investigated”.
“We can believe that they were hoping for internal help for the coup plot,” he said.
The AfD has 78 MPs in the 736-member Bundestag. He kept a discreet stance during the operation to dismantle the core and the leadership of the far-right party “categorically rejected” the plans.
One of its MPs, Petr Bistron, called the arrests “the biggest abuse of power in the history of the Federal Republic” and “massive intimidation of the entire opposition”.
Yesterday, police chief Holger Münch said the cell had a large number of weapons and was therefore potentially dangerous.
However, he added: “We should not consider that a group consisting of a few dozen, even hundreds (of members), is able to really challenge the state system in Germany.”
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