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25 arrests in raid on Reich citizen scene

2022-12-07T07:45:32.246Z


25 arrests in raid on Reich citizen scene Created: 2022-12-07Updated: 2022-12-07 08:42 The lettering "Polizei" lights up on the roof of a police patrol car. © Carsten Rehder/dpa/symbol image In Germany, the Reich Citizens' Scene is in the sights of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Thousands of police officers have now been deployed in almost all federal states to arrest suspec


25 arrests in raid on Reich citizen scene

Created: 2022-12-07Updated: 2022-12-07 08:42

The lettering "Polizei" lights up on the roof of a police patrol car.

© Carsten Rehder/dpa/symbol image

In Germany, the Reich Citizens' Scene is in the sights of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Thousands of police officers have now been deployed in almost all federal states to arrest suspects.

According to the federal prosecutor's office, a group was planning the state coup.

Karlsruhe - On Wednesday morning, the federal prosecutor's office had 25 people from the so-called Reich citizen scene arrested during a raid - also in Baden-Württemberg.

Around 3,000 officials are deployed in eleven federal states, a spokeswoman for the Karlsruhe authority told the German Press Agency.

She accuses the accused of having prepared the overthrow of the state.

22 of those arrested are said to be members of a terrorist organization, two of them ringleaders.

Three others are considered supporters.

There are also 27 other suspects, said the spokeswoman.

"We don't have a name for this association yet," she said.

It's probably based on conspiracy theories.

According to the information, people were arrested not only in Baden-Württemberg, but also in Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony and Thuringia, as well as one person each in Austria and Italy.

There were also searches in Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.

The federal prosecutor's office wanted to start questioning the first arrested on Wednesday, the spokeswoman said.

"Reich citizens" are people who do not recognize the Federal Republic and its democratic structures.

They often refuse to pay taxes.

Often they are in conflict with authorities.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution ascribes around 21,000 followers to the scene.

During a raid in 2016, a so-called Reich citizen shot four police officers in Georgensgmünd, Bavaria.

One of them succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

The special task force wanted to confiscate the hunter's weapons.

dpa

Source: merkur

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