Three thousand officers carried out 130 raids across Germany on Wednesday, arresting 25 people who were allegedly plotting to storm the Reichstag and overthrow the government.
Three thousand officers carried out 130 raids across Germany on Wednesday, arresting 25 people who were allegedly plotting to storm the Reichstag and overthrow the government. The BBC reports those arrested are far-right figures from the Reichsbürger (Reich Citizens) movement who reject Germany’s postwar constitution, QAnon believers, and ex-military members, and it flags one name among them: Prince Heinrich XIII, a 71-year-old „minor aristocrat“ who was to be installed as leader. „We don’t yet have a name for this group,“ said a rep for the federal prosecutor’s office, which alleges the group had been planning since November 2021 to carry out an armed attack on parliament in order to usher in a new state called the Second Reich that was akin to the Germany of 1871.
