The prosecutor’s office said that those arrested “aimed to overthrow the existing state system and replace it with their own form of state of which fundamental features are already prepared”
, a cabal of far-right military officers, plots a coup against the Weimar Republic to bring back the monarchy. At the crack of dawn on December 7th some 3,000 police and special-forces officers carried out raids in 11 states across Germany to arrest 25 suspected members of a group that was allegedly planning to topple the “deep state” the plotters believe is ruling the country.
According to the prosecutor the group, formed in 2021, wanted to install as the new head of state and leader of a ruling council “Prince” Heinrich XIII of Reuss, the 71-year-old descendant of a family that ruled its principality in eastern Germany until 1918.
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