Anne ApplebaumDec 7, 2022
Massive raids across Germany, arrests of far-right coup plotters including ex-Bundeswehr officers. Qanon influence appears to have played a role in their thinking...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63885028
Germany arrests 25 accused of plotting coup

A far-right group is suspected of planning to storm parliament and install an aristocrat as leader.

BBC News
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"The group was prepared to use violence and accepted that deaths would happen... Its central “council” was headed by an individual named as Heinrich XIII P.R., who had reached out to Russian representatives inside Germany — although the prosecutor stated that there were no indications so far that there had been a positive response to his overtures."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/07/germany-coup-arrests-reichsbuerger-heinrich/

German police arrest 25 over far-right plot to overthrow government

The group subscribed to conspiracy theories including QAnon and the Reichsbürger movement, which denies the existence of the modern German state, authorities said.

The Washington Post
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