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Germany arrests dozens suspected of plotting far-right extremist coup
NBC News ^ | 12/07/2022 | Andy Eckardt and Patrick Smith

Posted on 12/07/2022 5:18:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind

MAINZ, Germany — Authorities in Germany arrested 25 people on Wednesday who are suspected of planning to violently overthrow the government in a far-right extremist plot.

More than 3,000 police officers, including special forces, made 130 early morning searches across 11 of Germany's 16 federal states in one of the biggest counterterrorism operations in the country's history.

Suspects from the so-far unnamed group include a nobleman with a historic royal title and various armed forces veterans. It is centered on the so-called Reichsbürger, or Reich Citizens, movement which is motivated by conspiracy theories about the role and legitimacy of the modern German state.

Those arrested will appear in court Wednesday and Thursday. The homes of a further 27 people suspected of being members or supporters of the group have been searched.

“We defend ourselves with all strength against the enemies of democracy," German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wrote on Twitter.

She said the group was "driven by fantasies of violent overturn and conspiracy ideologies" and hated democracy and the state. "Further investigations will give a clear picture of how far the coup plans had progressed," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coup; farright; germany; reichsbuerger; reichsburger
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1 posted on 12/07/2022 5:18:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Will the German/WEF govt call it the “D-6 Insurrection?”


2 posted on 12/07/2022 5:19:48 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

FROM THE ARTICLE;

The German prosecutor’s office said the suspects belong to a terrorist group founded in November 2021 at the latest, which aims to overthrow the government in Berlin and install its own leaders through the “forcible elimination of the democratic constitutional state.”

The members of the association are aware that this project can only be realized through the use of military means and violence against state representatives,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement early Wednesday. It said there was “the suspicion that individual members of the association have made concrete preparations to forcibly invade” the German parliament, the Bundestag, “with a small armed group.”

“The details are yet to be worked out,” it added.

The statement added that the group was motivated by a rejection of the “free democratic basic order of the Federal Republic of Germany.”

Some member’s the group’s “military arm” are former members of the German army, the Bundeswehr, prosecutors said. The German armed forces have been beset by a series of scandals involving personnel belonging to far-right groups.


3 posted on 12/07/2022 5:20:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

130 people are not going to overthrow anything.

We may be seeing the people already in control of government suppressing any political opposition.


4 posted on 12/07/2022 5:20:50 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reichstag Fire II


5 posted on 12/07/2022 5:21:47 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I highly doubt 25 people thought they could plan a coup.


6 posted on 12/07/2022 5:22:33 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If that happened here, it would be the FBI that started it, then rounded up the usual suspects.


7 posted on 12/07/2022 5:26:41 AM PST by stevem
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To: SeekAndFind

The idiots in the media insist on calling this brand of ideology as “far-right” but it is nothing pf the kind. This is another form of command-and-control, with roots in socialistic thinking.

The perspective that makes this seem to be “far-right” is only from other forms of socialism. The proponents of socialist doctrines are so self-absorbed that they cannot conceive of another kind of social organization, and their whole existence is so keyed to one form or another of socialistic command-and-control, they view everything through the same prism. And they all fall into warfare among themselves, each believing that theirs is the “One and True Path”.

A delusion that has endured since the rise of human governance with the organization of clans and tribes.

Strong man and obedient followers. Elections are by one of the obedient followers being not so obedient, and killing the strong man.


8 posted on 12/07/2022 5:31:23 AM PST by alloysteel (People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do - Isaac Asimov)
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To: Travis McGee

I doubt it will be called anything to do with J6, it will be called something that brings up Germany’s dark past.

Something like, Beer Hall Putsch II, Hitler according to these people were far right, the modern planners are nothing but Hitler wannabes in 2022, so equate them to crack down on Civil Liberties even more than they already are.


9 posted on 12/07/2022 5:31:31 AM PST by srmanuel (I)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gov’t speak to excuse oppression of those who disagree?

the group was “driven by fantasies of violent overturn and conspiracy ideologies”


10 posted on 12/07/2022 5:31:35 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: SeekAndFind

The FBI could grab every FR poster that said “the tree of liberty” quote to justify the same thing


11 posted on 12/07/2022 5:35:11 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Travis McGee
Here they are!


12 posted on 12/07/2022 5:35:14 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: SauronOfMordor

There’s more to this. There must be if it is CBS reporting.


13 posted on 12/07/2022 5:38:03 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: SeekAndFind

Did it start out in a beer hall?


14 posted on 12/07/2022 5:39:13 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: stevem

The Jan 6 BS is an example of what can be expected from our “democracy”.


15 posted on 12/07/2022 5:41:55 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is most likely as legit as an FBI raid on MAGA DVEs who were planning a MAGA revolt. I guess the German government proves it’s NAZI chops by their support for the Nazification of the Ukes.


16 posted on 12/07/2022 5:48:25 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: SeekAndFind

Backed by Qanon supporters.

Q is the deep state, staging these things, like the Whitmer kidnapping, and then making arrests.


17 posted on 12/07/2022 6:01:43 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: Bookshelf
” There’s more to this. There must be if it is CBS reporting.

If you are intimating that CBS is a front for the CIA, I think that you may be correct.

18 posted on 12/07/2022 6:03:59 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

the liberals in our country waged a coup and succeeded in overthrowing the government by stealing the elections.


19 posted on 12/07/2022 6:23:26 AM PST by Bob434 (question)
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To: SeekAndFind

First question, I’m sure: “Are you Jewish?”


20 posted on 12/07/2022 6:40:26 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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