3000 police officers deployed in raids over plot to overthrow German government | DW News (5 min video, content description & video TRANSCRIPT)

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In a nationwide raid, 25 suspected members and supporters of a terrorist organization were arrested early Wednesday. Officials said the network, part of a wider right-wing movement, was already well established with a concrete plan to overthrow the German state by force and install a new government.

The raids were announced by Germany's federal prosecution agency and German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann. Buschmann said the investigations were directed against a suspected terrorist network with known ties to the Reichsbürger movement. He said that the raids had taken place on individuals suspected of planning an armed attack on state institutions.

The search operation is reported to have covered 130 properties belonging to 52 suspects in 11 German states. According to prosecution officials, the arrested suspects "belong to a terrorist organization founded by the end of November 2021 at the latest, which has set itself the goal of overcoming the existing state order in Germany and replacing it with its own form of state, which has already been worked out in outline." Of the 25 men and women arrested, 24 were from Germany and one suspected supporter is from Russia. One arrest took place in Austria and one in Italy. There are 27 other suspects, the federal prosecutor's office said.

Prosecutors identified the suspected ringleaders only as Heinrich XIII P. R. and Ruediger v. P., in line with German privacy rules. The news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the former was a well-known 71-year-old member of a minor German noble family, while the latter was a 69-year-old former paratrooper. According to prosecutors, Heinrich XIII P. R., who the group planned to install as the new leader of Germany, had made contact with Russian officials seeking to establish a new order in Germany once the Berlin government was overthrown. A Russian woman, Vitalia B, had allegedly given him help with this. A currently-serving soldier in the Bundeswehr's Special Forces Command (KSK) as well as several Bundeswehr reservists were also among suspects in the case, a spokesperson for Germany's Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) told the DPA news agency. A search was carried out at the soldier's home and his barracks office in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

The group had targeted members of the Bundeswehr and police for their wanted to win their goals. It had formed a "military arm" and a council presided over by Heinrich XIII P. R. To implement their plans the group's members were prepared to use the use of military means and violence against state representatives as well as violence. According to the investigators, the members of the group "followed a conglomerate of conspiracy myths consisting of narratives of the so-called 'Reichsbürger' as well as QAnon ideology." The prosecutors added that the group's adherents believe Germany is ruled by a so-called "deep state," similar to baseless claims about the United States that were made by former President Donald Trump. The Reichsbürger movement is made up of a number of small organizations and individuals, mainly in the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bavaria. They do not accept the legality of the Federal Republic of Germany or any of its government authorities. The movement argues that the German constitution prior to World War II was never properly nullified and that the formation of the former West Germany in 1949, and now reunified Germany, was therefore never valid.

[Fury]

I think their is a very good chance the Senate will eliminate the Filibuster early next year and pack the Supreme Court before the next term starts.

Not possible, or, well, probable. Congress must approve a change in size to SCOTUS. That's not going to happen in the Senate this year, and it won't happen in the House starting in 2023.

[subterfuge]

Do they really need to pack the SC? They’re getting everything they want now as far as I can see.

[cgbg]

Rule #1 of the Deep State:

Call anyone who uses the words “Deep State” a crazy right conspiracy theorist.

[Vaduz]

Gee I wonder why so many states here defunded the police.

[DugwayDuke]

As reported in the WSJ.

“German authorities on Wednesday said they had dismantled a domestic far-right terrorist cell inspired by the QAnon conspiracy on suspicion of planning to overthrow the government.”

Of the 25 people arrested in the early hours of the day, 22 are suspected of conspiring to foment a coup, the country’s federal prosecutor said. Their alleged plans included an armed storming of the federal parliament. The other three, including a Russian citizen living in Germany, are suspected of supporting the group, the prosecutor said.”

“The group was inspired by the QAnon conspiracy that has spread worldwide from the U.S. and has been linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, as well as the German Reichsbürger, or Citizens of the Reich, movement, which rejects the German state and its institutions, the prosecutor said.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-dismantles-suspected-qanon-inspired-terrorist-group-11670405579?mod=hp_lead_pos10

[Zionist Conspirator]

The prosecutors added that the group's adherents believe Germany is ruled by a so-called "deep state," similar to baseless claims about the United States that were made by former President Donald Trump.

Now that's what I call objectivity![/sarc]

So, the Kaiser's coming back?

[jimwatx]

Too bad they got caught.

[Boogieman]

“My understanding of Kristallnacht is that the Nazis burned down the Reichstag and then used that to take control of Germany.”

No, Kristallnacht was when the Nazis went around smashing the storefronts of Jewish-owned businesses. Happened five years after the Reichstag fire, when the Nazis were already firmly in control of Germany.

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Why do they only dismantle ‘Far Right’ groups. When was the last time we heard about any government entity going after a ‘Far Left’ group for threatening or actually committing violence

[9YearLurker]

I imagine they consider the warnings from Ike and JFK to have been baseless as well.

[cuz1961]

I wonder if these German doctors in this vid were part of this arrest.

A Manufactured Illusion: Dr David Martin with Reiner Fuellmich

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsDlHprql-g

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