More than 130 searches have been carried out, including that of the accommodation of an old far -right deputy of the Bundestag.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
A vast German police operation in far -right and conspiratorial groups led, Wednesday, December 7, morning, to the dismantling of a cell projecting attacks, and which notably targeted the Bundestag, the lower room of Parliament , said the prosecution.
The thread led to the arrest throughout the country of twenty-five people belonging to the “Reich citizens” movement (Reichsbürger). These people are in particular suspected “of having made concrete preparations to violently enter the German Bundestag with a small armed group,” the prosecutors said in a statement. “We suspect that an armed attack on the constitutional bodies was planned,” commented the Minister of Justice, Marco Buschmann, in a Message on Twitter evoking “a large anti -terrorist operation” .
a former search deputy
Some 3,000 members of the police were mobilized across Germany and more than 130 searches were carried out. In addition to the twenty-five arrests, twenty-seven other people are targeted by the investigation and suspected of belonging to the criminal cell, according to the prosecution. Among them, the former deputy for the extreme right alternative party Für Deutschland (AFD) Birgit unhealthy-winkemann who sat in the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021, and whose accommodation was searched, according to the Die Welt newspaper . “The continuation of the investigation will determine whether there are constituent elements of the crime of preparation for a high treason company against the State,” add prosecutors.
Founded “no later than the end of 2021”, the cell A “for overcoming the existing state order in Germany and replacing it with a form of clean state”, a project can only be carried out ” ‘Use of military means and violence against state representatives, “according to the Karlsruhe prosecutor’s office, in charge of affairs concerning state security. The group is also known for intimidation operations against doctors practicing vaccination.
Its members are “united by a profound rejection of the institutions of the State and of the fundamental liberal and democratic order of the Federal Republic of Germany, which made the decision of the decision of the decision Participate in their elimination by violence and to embark on concrete preparatory acts for this purpose, “decipher prosecutors.
The German authorities have classified far -right violence in recent years at the forefront of the threats to public order, before the jihadist risk. In the spring, the German authorities had dismantled a far -right group suspected of having projected attacks in the country in addition to the kidnapping of the Minister of Health.