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Prince and the revolution The road to Bad Lobenstein, a small rural town of 6,400 people in Thuringia, eastern Germany, is shrouded in white. Thick fog hangs over fields of dense powdery snow and the tops of towering pine trees vanish into swirls of low-hanging clouds. As I descend the mountain into the valley, an idyllic-looking scene comes into […]
An obscure German blue blood is reportedly at the center of a strange plan to topple the German government foiled this week by the country s security services. Observers are describing the development as a dangerous escalation of the Reichsbürger movement, whose followers want to overthrow Germany s leaders.
A former parliamentary lawmaker from the far-right Alternative For Germany (AfD) was also among those detained, according to German prosecutors. "Based on my experience, there is usually a second wave of arrests," Georg Maier, the interior minister of the eastern German state of Thuringia, told broadcaster Deutschlandfunk on Thursday.
BERLIN – Germany on Wednesday (Dec 7) detained 25 members and supporters of a far-right group that the prosecutor's office said was preparing a violent overthrow of the state to install as national leader a prince who had sought backing from Russia. Prosecutors said the group was inspired by the deep state conspiracy theories of Germany's Reichsbuerger and QAnon, whose.