A policeman wounded in an operation against a group of far-right coup plotters in Germany

A wounded German police officer and five accused conspirators are the result of a nationwide operation in Germany to continue the crackdown on a far-right terrorist group that was plotting a coup to seize power in Berlin.

A man shot an agent of the Special Command Unit (SEK) of the police when he started to search his house in the city Reutlingen. The author of the recording, whose identity has not been disclosed, was reduced and stopped. Federal prosecutors charge him with attempted murder. The agent, who was hit in the shoulder, was hospitalized and is out of danger.

In total 22 real estate objects of 19 persons were registered in an operation that began early in the morning at eight federal states, including Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Saxony, as well as in Switzerland, the federal prosecutor’s office reported. The investigation is directed against the group of so-called Reichsburgerliterally, citizens of the Reich, who deny the legality of the federal republic and have extreme right-wing tendencies, around the prince Henry XIII of Reuss. The German nobleman is currently in pretrial detention, after he was arrested in early December last year along with 24 other members of his organization, which federal prosecutors described as a terrorist organization.

This Wednesday’s operation was directed against five specific suspects, although the searches were carried out in the homes of another 14 persons who are not registered as such. One of them was the one who unexpectedly killed an SEK agent, said a spokeswoman for the Karlsruhe-based national public prosecutor’s office. The author of the recordings apparently had a license for weapons. German media pointed out that it was among the residences attacked by the police active police officer and member of the army.

The federal prosecutor’s office has been investigating the alleged since last September terrorist cell led by Prince Henry XIII of Reuss, it consisted of at least 50 men, several of them active or reserve police or military. 25 of them are inside preventive detention since last December, including a judge and former deputy of the ultra-nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) Birgit Malsack Winkemann. They were all accused of founding and supporting a terrorist organization whose members planned to storm the parliament and government headquarters in Berlin in order to seize power by force.

The investigations so far show that the group around the German nobleman was fed with conspiracy theories computer on the international alliance of foreign military units, including Russian troops, will soon overthrow the German government. His goal would be to seize power immediately and establish an authoritarian regime under the leadership of Germany.

a successful businessman

On Day X they planned take with two dozen men and women Reichstag, a historic building that houses the federal parliament, modeled after the attack on the United States Capitol. MPs and members of the federal government present in the chamber would be handcuffed and captured.

A group associated with the Reichsbürger hoped that this action would lead to riots throughout Germany leading to the collapse of the system and abolition of democracy.

The new government would be chaired by Prince Henrik XIII. from Reuss, who comes from a noble family with numerous branches and more than 800 years of history, whose members they don’t want to know anything about the black sheep. The prince is a successful businessman in the real estate sector and the production of sparkling wines. Members of the group would sign confidentiality clauses, which carry the death penalty for traitors, sources in the investigation said.

Number two in the organization after the prince would be Rudiger von P.., lieutenant colonel in the reserve of the parachute unit and the core of the special forces commando, the elite unit of the ground army. He is considered responsible for the military part of the group, which includes several other active and reserve soldiers, as well as some police officers. Rüdiger von P. was also in charge of preparing the attack on Berlin and organizing the formation of paramilitary support units throughout the country.