Extremist group linked to conspiracy theories accused of planning to storm Berlin parliament
  • Plume (She/Her)@beehaw.org
    27·
    11 months ago

    It feels so good to see countries not tolerating the far right. As a French, they’re basically everywhere now, everyone on talks like the Far Right on TV, now. My country has gotten so complacent with it…

    I hope Germany keeps doing this and more act accordingly.

    • valgarf@discuss.tchncs.de
      10·
      11 months ago

      I fear your optimism ist unwarranted. The far right is attracting more and more voters here.

      The ones arrested are not the far right you see on TV. They are conspiracy nuts who want to return to the time Germany had an emperor. They planned a revolution and hoarded weapons.

      Probably wanted to regain the old empire’s territory as well, especially the regions belonging to France now…

      • Intelligence_Gap@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Have you seen American news? Were on the fast track to electing a guy who lead a coup and said he wanted to be a dictator

        • valgarf@discuss.tchncs.de
          5·
          11 months ago

          I follow US news a little. You seem to be much further along on your way to abolish democracy. But to be fair, the “winner takes it all” voting mechanism and resulting two party system really helps in dividing a country.

          Also “hoarding weapons” seems to be an acceptable pasttime in the US.

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    11 months ago

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    German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against 27 people, including a self-styled prince and a former far-right lawmaker, in connection with an alleged plot to topple the government that came to light with a slew of arrests a year ago.

    Nine of the suspects, all German nationals, are accused of belonging to a terrorist organisation that was founded in July 2021 with the aim of “doing away by force with the existing state order in Germany”, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

    Prosecutors said the accused believed in a “conglomerate of conspiracy myths”, including Reich Citizens and QAnon ideology, and were convinced Germany was ruled by a so-called “deep state”.

    Adherents of the Reichsbürger, or Reich Citizens movement, reject Germany’s postwar constitution and have called for bringing down the government, while QAnon is a global conspiracy theory with roots in the US.

    A year later, far-right extremists taking part in a protest against the country’s pandemic restrictions tried and failed to storm parliament.

    In a separate case, five people went on trial in May over an alleged plot by a group calling itself United Patriots – which prosecutors say is also linked to the Reich Citizens scene – to launch a far-right coup and kidnap Germany’s health minister.

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  • Zworf@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    All the while in Holland the extreme-right is taking over the government fully legally. What a world… :(