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Reichsbürger: German far-right extremists charged with planning violent coup
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67691489
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“The members of the group strongly rejected state institutions and the free democratic constitutional order,” according to the indictment.
The plan was to seize power by invading the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, with a small group of armed personnel.
On taking office, he would negotiate a peace treaty with the Allied powers which won World War II.
Prince Reuss tried to meet representatives of the Russian government to gain support for the coup, according to prosecutors.
Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, then a member of the Bundestag for the far-right Alternative for Germany party, would have been made justice minister.
According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, there are about 23,000 followers of the Reichsbürger movement in the country.
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