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Prince Reuss when he was arrested on December 7th in Frankfurt am Main
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While the suspected leader of terror and »Reichsbürger« activist Heinrich XIII.
When Prince Reuss dreamed of the end of the Federal Republic, he happily did business with the German state.
According to SPIEGEL information, the 71-year-old wanted to buy a forest area in Thuringia from the federal government shortly before his arrest.
According to the written answer of the Federal Ministry of Finance to a question from the Bundestag member Gesine Lötzsch (left), it was about "forestry areas of around 394 hectares at a purchase price of around 1 million euros".
The purchase contract between the federal government and Prince Reuss was therefore notarized on December 5th - two days before special police forces took the buyer away in handcuffs.
Prince Reuss is considered the head of a radical political sect that adhered to wild conspiracy ideologies and is said to have planned a violent overthrow.
The federal prosecutor has accused him and more than 50 other suspects of forming or supporting a terrorist organization.
The defender of Prince Reuss has not wanted to comment on the allegations to SPIEGEL.
After the real estate transaction became known, the Federal Ministry of Finance is now trying to limit the damage.
According to the letter to the member of the Bundestag Lötzsch, the purchase contract is "pending invalid" and will not be approved.
For Lötzsch, the deal with the "Reichsbürger Reuss" is proof that the federal government is "still blind in the right eye".
You should "no longer watch" how such people "build their infrastructure with the help of the state".
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