Federal prosecutors in Germany said Monday they have charged five people with treason and forming a “terrorist organization” that aimed to overthrow the government and spark a civil war.
Prosecutors said the suspects, four men and one woman, had made “concrete preparations” to cause a full-scale blackout in the country and use the resulting chaos to set up an alternative government. They also allegedly planned to kidnap the country’s health minister, Karl Lauterbach, who has faced extreme criticism from opponents of the government’s pandemic restrictions.
The group is accused of being driven by the ‘Citizens of the Reich’ ideology propagated by one of its members, who was identified only as Elisabeth R. due to German privacy regulations.
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Five people in Germany have been charged by federal prosecutors with treason and forming a “terrorist organization” that allegedly wanted to spark a civil war.
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The five German citizens were arrested last year and remain in pretrial detention.
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Authorities uncovered a similar plot by another, larger far-right group last month. Its members were also adherents of the Reich Citizens movement, which believes that the current government is illegitimate and that the 1871 German constitution is still in force.
