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The prince, the plotters and the would-be putsch: Germany to try far-right coup gang | Germany
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One of the largest legal proceedings in German history is due to start on Monday with the first of three trials of a group of far-right conspiracists who planned to violently overthrow the country’s parliament.
According to federal prosecutors, the group planned to enter the Reichstag in Berlin with armed support to arrest members of the Bundestag or parliament with the intention of “overthrowing the system”.
They had been forging the plans from August 2021, until they were uncovered in December 2022 in a series of large scale anti-terror raids involving thousands of officers searching 150 properties across 11 German states, as well as abroad.
Among their very detailed plans was an “execution list” drawn up by an ex-elite soldier and survival trainer, Peter Wörner, nicknamed “Wolf”, which included chancellor Olaf Scholz, two leading TV personalities, Markus Lanz and Sandra Maischberger, as well as the head of the opposition CDU, Friedrich Merz.
On trial alongside T, will be Melanie Ritter, 57, a doctor specialising in the method of predicting the future through eggs and a Covid vaccine sceptic who had expected to become health minister following the coup.
“I cannot confirm… that Prince Reuss posed a threat to the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and that he would have joined or approved of the use of violence,” he told German media.
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