- The defendants aim to overthrow the existing state order and replace it with their own government.

Two German policemen, in a file image.

25 ultra-rightists suspected of planning a coup in Germany arrested

German security forces have arrested 25 members of an unidentified far-right group suspected of planning a coup, authorities have announced, stressing that the detainees intended to "use military means" against state representatives and subsequently form their own government.

The German Prosecutor's Office has detailed in a statement on its website that the detainees are "suspected members and followers of a terrorist organization" and has confirmed that there are operations underway to arrest a total of 52 people. Thus, he has stated that 22 of the detainees are members of the group and are all of the German nationality, while among the three "followers" arrested there are two Germans and one Russian.

The arrests have taken place in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saxony, and Thuringia, while two people have been arrested in Austria and Italy, respectively. To this are added raids and searches in 130 properties in four other federal states of Germany.

"Those arrested are suspected of being members of a domestic terrorist organization," he noted, before identifying the alleged leaders as Henrich XIII and Rudiger.

Terrorist organization

"The defendants belong to a terrorist organization founded at the latest at the end of November 2021 that had the objective of overthrowing the existing state order in Germany and replacing it with its own form of government, which would have been concocted," he said.

"The members of the association are aware that this project can only be achieved through military and violent means against state representatives, which includes committing homicides.

The defendants are united by a profound rejection of state institutions and the free democratic order in Germany," said the Prosecutor's Office, which has said that all of them "follow a conglomerate of conspiracy myths of the so-called Reichsburger and QAnon ideologies."

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