A GERMAN aristocrat is in the midst of a Russian-related plot to violently overthrow the government and install himself as a leader in order to bring about the return of the Second Reich.
Prince Heinrich XIII arrested along with 24 others in a series of dramatic police raids across Germany.
Some 3,000 searched 130 sites across the country in one of the largest search operations in history.
The prince is believed to have directed the plot with a former paratrooper commander, named just Rüdiger v. P.
The duo is said to have been a plan to violently tear down the German parliament building, the Reichstag.
Rudiger and Heinrich hoped to install themselves at the head of the new regime.
Heinrich also reportedly contacted Russian officials about their involvement in the coup, and one of those arrested is Russian.
Mad tyrant Vladimir Putin is known for destabilizing Western governments, especially Germany, in the midst of the war in Ukraine.
The Russian embassy in Germany has denied any involvement in a plot, saying it makes paintings with “terrorist groups. “
Former army figures are also believed to have worked with Heinrich and Rudiger.
And one of the police raids took place at a barracks of Germany’s KSK special forces unit in the southwest of the city of Calw.
The conspirators reportedly included members of the extremist Reichsburger movement, or the Reich, and QAnon supporters.
And they described themselves in the German media as calling themselves the “Patriotic Union. “
Heinrich, a businessman who worked in real estate, wine and arts, arrested at his Frankfurt office.
His circle of family members distanced themselves from him in the “clearest terms imaginable” after publicly meeting with politicians at a distance in August.
He reportedly left the circle of relatives 14 years ago, describing it through the House of Reuss as a “confused old man. “
The conspirators allegedly tried to recruit members of the German police and the state defense forces, the Bundeswehr.
It is estimated that up to 50 men were already part of the group.
And its general purpose of updating fashionable Germany and repairing the Second Reich.
The members of the settlement are aware that this task can be achieved through the use of military means.
The Second Reich ruled the German Empire from 1871 before being defeated by the British and their allies in World War I.
Germany’s defeat saw the Kaiser’s abdication and the collapse of the monarchy, leaving a weakened state like the Weimar Republic.
The republic eventually overtook Adolf Hitler, leading to World War II.
Federal prosecutors said the conspirators sought to overthrow public order in Germany and update it with their own.
“The members of the settlement are aware that this task can only be achieved through the use of army means and force contrary to state officials,” he said.
“This is also the commission of homicides. “
The conspirators believed that their new government would be subsidized through Russia and the United States.
Prosecutors said 22 Germans were suspected of “belonging to a terrorist organization” after raiding sites in 11 of Germany’s 16 states.
Three people, in addition to a Russian citizen, are suspected of supporting the group, they said.
Public broadcaster ZDF reported that a former member of parliament’s cramped space, the Bundestag, is part of the plot.
And the KSK unit has come under scrutiny in the afterlife due to the alleged involvement of some soldiers on the far right.
Federal prosecutors either denied or denied that the barracks had been searched.
Prosecutors said those arrested last year allegedly formed a terrorist organization with the aim of overthrowing Germany’s existing law and order and replacing it with their own form of state, which is already being created.
The suspects were aware that their purpose could be achieved simply through the means and strength of the army, prosecutors said.
They believed in a conglomeration of conspiracy theories consisting of accounts of so-called citizens of the Reich, as well as QAnon ideology, according to one of the prosecutors.
They added that the members of the organization also govern Germany through the so-called deep state.
Prosecutors knew the alleged ringleaders as Heinrich XIII PR and Ruediger v P, in accordance with German privacy rules.
Der Spiegel reported that the former was a well-known 71-year-old member of a minor German noble family, while the latter was a 69-year-old former paratrooper.
Federal prosecutors said Heinrich XIII P R, whom the organization planned to install as Germany’s new leader, contacted Russian officials with the aim of negotiating a new order in the country once the German government was overthrown.
He allegedly helped in this through a Russian woman, Vitalia B.
However, based on ongoing investigations, there is no indication that those contacted definitively responded to their request, prosecutors said.
Another user arrested by police on Wednesday known to prosecutors as Birgit M W.
Der Spiegel reported that the woman is a former lawmaker from the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
The party, known by its German acronym AfD, is increasingly under surveillance by German security because of its links to extremists.
Justice Minister Marco Buschmann described the raids as an anti-terrorism operation, adding that the suspects may have planned an armed attack on state institutions.
He tweeted: “Since this morning, a primary counter-terrorism operation has been underway.
“The federal prosecutor is investigating a suspected terrorist in the citizenship of the Reich.
“It is suspected that an armed attack on constitutional bodies was planned. “
The Sun Online has exposed in the past how QAnon and other far-right conspiracy theories have exploded across Europe, many of the unfounded ideals that are taking root in Germany.
Disinformation experts have warned that the continent has a “breeding ground” for the same type of conspiracies that took place in the US after covid was isolated.
QAnon, the belief that the world is through a satanic cabal at war with Donald Trump, has combined with Reich citizens or Reichsburgers.
The far-right organization claims that the pre-World War II Reich still exists and denies state authority.
The Sun Online discovered German-language websites connected to Reich citizens, who claimed that Germany was “still occupied” and that there was “no peace” after World War II.
Die Welt reported following a German-language Telegram channel that it celebrated the storming of the U. S. Capitol. The U. S. Department of Commerce is held on Jan. 6 as an act “for all of us. “
And a terrifying report of the cross-organization Trolls Out!(GTTO!) found that Germany had the most active far-right chatter in Europe.
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