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Germany charges 27 suspects over Reichsbürger coup plot
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https://www.dw.com/en/germany-charges-27-suspects-over-reichsb%C3%BCrger-coup-plot/a-67703212
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For the first time after a series of raids last year, federal prosecutors in Germany on Tuesday brought charges linked to an alleged coup plot hatched by members of the far-right “Reichsbürger” movement.
Authorities in the western city of Karlsruhe said they had charged 26 suspected members of a terrorist organization and a Russian female national accused of supporting it.
Those now charged include Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, a former member of the German parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
According to prosecutors, the group made contact with Russian officials seeking to establish a new order in Germany once the Berlin government was overthrown.
Prosecutors said the suspects planned to set up 280 armed units across Germany that would have been tasked with “arresting and executing” people after a coup.
Members of the movement believe deep-state conspiracy theories that deny the existence of Germany’s post-World War II Federal Republic and reject the authority of the German government.
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