GP, celebrity chef and astrologer among defendants in third trial linked to far-right Reichsbürger

GP, celebrity chef and astrologer among defendants in third trial linked to far-right Reichsbürger

Eight alleged members of the German far-right Reichsbürger are to go on trial accused of a plot to violently overthrow the state, in the third in a row of similar court cases being held across the country.

The defendants, including a GP, a celebrity chef and an astrologer, are accused of serving as the plot’s leadership council and, prosecutors say, were set to become a cabinet in waiting if the group’s plan to storm the parliament building and overthrow the government had succeeded.

They are charged with membership of a terrorist organisation and preparing an act of high treason. The group had plans in place to kidnap Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and parade him on television in the hope of winning more followers to their cause, prosecutors say.

  • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    17•5 months ago

    a GP

    a celebrity cook from Austria, tasked with feeding the new regime a healthy diet

    “spiritual criteria” to pick out appropriate candidates for the future government

    Heinrich XIII Prince Reuß, a pseudo aristocrat and estate agent whom the group intended to appoint as its interim leader.

    Hildegard Leiding, 60, a member of the rightwing AfD party and an astrologer, who was allegedly destined to become the group’s “trans-communications minister”.

    Together with a welder from the Bavarian rocker scene

    The woman, who is said to have become radicalised during the pandemic and specialised in a method of predicting the future through reading eggs, known as oomancy, was expected to become the health minister.

    The group had plans in place to kidnap Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and parade him on television in the hope of winning more followers to their cause, prosecutors say.

    This would not work well as a movie plot due to lack of believability.