Germany Arrests 25 Members of ‘Reichsbuerger’ Group Over Attempted Coup

Germany Arrests 25 Members of ‘Reichsbuerger’ Group Over Attempted Coup
Police and visitors stand outside the Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, at dusk on the day police conducted nationwide raids against a suspected insurrectionist group in Berlin on Dec. 7, 2022. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Twenty-five supporters of a group preparing to violently overthrow the German state were detained by German authorities on Wednesday.

According to prosecutors, the group was inspired by the Reichsbuerger movement, a group denying the legitimacy of the modern German state, and instead insisting that the “Deutsches Reich” still exists, despite it being dissolved in World War Two when the Nazis were defeated.