After a far-right group plotted to overthrow the German government in a coup, experts who’ve been tracking groups inspired by paranoid conspiracy theories say it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.
surprised many around the world who thought the country had largely done away with its extremist right wing.
The group, which has not been named by officials, was founded no later than November 2021 and was in the process of planning an armed insurrection in order to install its own government, German prosecutors said. “Today’s group, however, was larger, further along in the planning and better connected with people trained in the [use of] weapons,” he said.Michael Probst / AP
“Even if Reich citizens or conspiracy ideologues seem like crazy people, many of those arrested come from the middle of society, have normal jobs, friends and so on,” he said. In 2021, a civil servant and Reichsbürger supporter lost his job after he named his birth state as “Kingdom of Bavaria” when applying for a passport, citing a 1913 law, according to a government report at the time, Reuters reported.
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