What we know about German group that plotted coup
So what is known about the group that was the subject of one of the biggest counterterror operations in German’s history?
The news Wednesday that a far-right group had plotted to overthrow the German government in a coup surprised many around the world who thought the country had largely done away with its extremist right wing.
But experts in Germany and elsewhere who had been tracking groups inspired by paranoid conspiracy theories and emboldened by the wider movement against pandemic measures said it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.
So what is known about the group that was the subject of one of the biggest counterterror operations in German’s history, featuring more than 3,000 police officers and special forces?
The plotters, 25 of whom were arrested during the operation, are charged with being part of an extremist terrorist organization that harbors a mixture of conspiracy theory-driven beliefs. Its members include a serving special forces officer and an eccentric aristocrat who holds and still uses a historic royal title.
The group, which has not been named by officials, was founded no later than November 2021 and was in the process of planning an armed insurrection in order to install its own government, German prosecutors said.
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