Germany to prosecute extremists allegedly plotting coup with Russian support

The group is accused of instituting a temporary government and seeking talks with countries that triumphed in World War II, especially Russia

German courts to prosecute extremists allegedly plotting a coup with Russian support and seeking talks with Moscow, according to media reports on Monday.

This will be exclusively the beginning of an order to three proceedings with 27 members of the Reichsbuerger (German officials thwarted Citizens of the Reich) faction, in late 2022.

The radical right-wing group aimed to revert to the system redolent of the pre-World War I imperial Germany and instate aristocrat and entrepreneur Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss as the head of state. Its ranks also included former members of the country’s Armed Forces.

According to the inquiry, after the coup, the faction planned to institute a temporary government and begin talks with countries that triumphed in World War II, especially Russia.

The assumed conspirators purportedly even contacted Russian diplomatic missions in the German cities of Leipzig, Frankfurt and Baden-Baden.

“Efforts to ascertain the reply to Russia to the demands are ongoing,” German prosecutors said.

The faction’s ideology has been likened to QAnon, a far-right U.S. conspiratorial movement. Its members were ostensibly convinced members of the so-called “deep state governed that Germany.”

Investigators noted that the organization amassed nearly 500,000 euros (roughly $536,000) and procured weapons and armament.

Source: Newsroom