"Action Klabautermann": Prevented kidnapper of Karl Lauterbach admits coup plans
Created: 07/22/2022, 18:10
By: Fee Halberstadt
A group planned the kidnapping of Lauterbach.
One now announced the intentions.
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Sven B. is one of the men who planned to kidnap Karl Lauterbach.
Now he comments on the intentions of him and his group.
Berlin – In mid-April, a group was exposed that was planning attacks on power lines and substations.
They then planned to carry out the "Operation Klabautermann", which provided for the kidnapping of the health minister Karl Lauterbach.
One of the arrested men, Sven B, has now confessed, as reported by
Spiegel
on Friday (July 22), citing the man's defense attorney.
After the first two steps of the plan, a political overthrow was to follow.
It was planned to have a doppelganger of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD), Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) or another prominent politician appear.
The population was to be cut off from media reporting by a nationwide power failure.
The defense attorney cited dissatisfaction with politics and the Corona measures as his client’s motive.
Overthrow the German government: comrades-in-arms of “Aktion Klabautermann” comments on their plan
The federal prosecutor did not comment on this when asked.
Sven B. and three suspected comrades-in-arms have been in custody since mid-April.
A little later, the Karlsruhe authorities took over the investigation.
She considers the group to be a terrorist organization.
The investigators accuse three of the men of having prepared a serious act of violence that is dangerous to the state.
Two are said to have attempted to participate in a crime.
According to
Spiegel
, Sven B. comes from the Berlin area.
According to earlier information from the investigative authorities, the other four come from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Rhineland-Palatinate), Falkensee near Berlin and from the districts of Landshut (Bavaria) and Ammerland (Lower Saxony).
The federal prosecutor's office is also investigating a fifth suspect, about whom no further information was given.
(fh/dpa)