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Raid against "Reichsbürger": "Prinz Reuss is seen as a muddlehead and oddball"

2022-12-07T16:46:40.823Z


300 police officers, 150 objects, 25 arrests: The raid on the "Reichsbürger" scene was one of the largest ever. A hunting lodge in Thuringia was also combed. Impressions from SPIEGEL reporter Roman Lehberger.


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He is said to be the head of the suspected right-wing terror group: Heinrich XIII.

Prince Reuss.

On Wednesday morning, the police arrested 25 people from the "Reichsbürger" milieu nationwide on behalf of the Federal Public Prosecutor and the Federal Criminal Police Office.

They are accused of being part of or having supported a terrorist organization.

About 150 apartments, offices and storage rooms were stormed.

These include the barracks of the Bundeswehr Special Forces Command in Calw, Baden-Württemberg.

Around 3,000 police officers were deployed in eleven federal states.

The accused are said to have planned an overthrow of the political system in Germany.

Henry XIII

Prince Reuss was to be installed as regent.

SPIEGEL reporter Roman Lehberger was on site during a raid in Thuringia.

Roman Lehberger, DER SPIEGEL


»I am here in Bad Lobenstein in the Thuringian Slate Mountains.

Here behind me we see the »Waidmannsheil« hunting lodge.

It belongs to Heinrich Prince Reuss XIII, who is the main suspect in the major investigation by the Federal Public Prosecutor General against a right-wing terrorist organization that was busted this morning in a nationwide action.

At 6:00 a.m. here in the morning, we observed that the GSG9 stormed this area behind me.

It got loud, there was shouting, there were bangs.

So you rode in here with big cutlery.

Extensive searches are now taking place here.

Hundreds of people are combing the entire park-like area for explosives, weapons and other evidence.

As our sources have told us,

this castle is considered something like the control center of this terrorist organization.

Meetings with suspected co-conspirators are said to have taken place here and it was something like the headquarters of this troop.

The accused himself, Mr. Prince Reuss, is considered more of a muddlehead and eccentric here in town, according to neighbors.

Nevertheless, he seems to be well connected here, because his contacts here extend to the top of local politics.

The mayor of Bad Lobenstein is considered an acquaintance or friend of this main suspect and he also had to resign in the summer, i.e. the mayor, due to his dubious activities.

But that just shows that this right-wing terrorist group obviously had good connections here in town.«

Meetings with suspected co-conspirators are said to have taken place here and it was something like the headquarters of this troop.

The accused himself, Mr. Prince Reuss, is considered more of a muddlehead and eccentric here in town, according to neighbors.

Nevertheless, he seems to be well connected here, because his contacts here extend to the top of local politics.

The mayor of Bad Lobenstein is considered an acquaintance or friend of this main suspect and he also had to resign in the summer, i.e. the mayor, due to his dubious activities.

But that just shows that this right-wing terrorist group obviously had good connections here in town.«

Meetings with suspected co-conspirators are said to have taken place here and it was something like the headquarters of this troop.

The accused himself, Mr. Prince Reuss, is considered more of a muddlehead and eccentric here in town, according to neighbors.

Nevertheless, he seems to be well connected here, because his contacts here extend to the top of local politics.

The mayor of Bad Lobenstein is considered an acquaintance or friend of this main suspect and he also had to resign in the summer, i.e. the mayor, due to his dubious activities.

But that just shows that this right-wing terrorist group obviously had good connections here in town.«

Mr. Prince Reuss, neighbors told us that he is more of a muddlehead and oddball here in town.

Nevertheless, he seems to be well connected here, because his contacts here extend to the top of local politics.

The mayor of Bad Lobenstein is considered an acquaintance or friend of this main suspect and he also had to resign in the summer, i.e. the mayor, due to his dubious activities.

But that just shows that this right-wing terrorist group obviously had good connections here in town.«

Mr. Prince Reuss, neighbors told us that he is more of a muddlehead and oddball here in town.

Nevertheless, he seems to be well connected here, because his contacts here extend to the top of local politics.

The mayor of Bad Lobenstein is considered an acquaintance or friend of this main suspect and he also had to resign in the summer, i.e. the mayor, due to his dubious activities.

But that just shows that this right-wing terrorist group obviously had good connections here in town.«

The mayor of Bad Lobenstein is considered an acquaintance or friend of this main suspect and he also had to resign in the summer, i.e. the mayor, due to his dubious activities.

But that just shows that this right-wing terrorist group obviously had good connections here in town.«

The mayor of Bad Lobenstein is considered an acquaintance or friend of this main suspect and he also had to resign in the summer, i.e. the mayor, due to his dubious activities.

But that just shows that this right-wing terrorist group obviously had good connections here in town.«

According to previous investigations, Henry XIII.

After the planned overthrow, Prince Reuss as regent begins negotiations with Russia.

His partner Vitalia B. is said to have already contacted Russian authorities, but according to the investigators without success.

Another accused, the former paratrooper commander Rüdiger von P., is said to have looked after the military arm of the organization in particular.

He is said to have tried to specifically recruit police officers and soldiers for the terrorist group.

Peter Frank, Federal Public Prosecutor


»The arrested people cling to conspiracy myths consisting of different narratives of the Reichsbürger ideology and the QAnon ideology.

As far as we know, the association is initially structured as a kind of council, which is supposed to be a kind of government organization or part of the government that has been subdivided and divided into various departments, such as the cabinet of a government or a state.

Individual people were already planned to take over individual departments, including the Justice Department: A former member of the German Bundestag.«

Former AfD MP Birgit Malsack-Winkemann worked as a judge in Berlin again after leaving the Bundestag.

According to the investigation, she is said to be a sports shooter and to own several firearms.

She was apparently intended by the suspected terrorist group as Minister of Justice.

Source: spiegel

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