According to the parliamentary director of the AfD, Baumann, the arrested group of so-called Reich citizens was not able to bring about a coup d’etat. They are “crazy”, but the use of the police is not proportionate. Another finding bothers him.
The AfD politician Bernd Baumann considers those arrested by the “Reich Citizens” group to be dangerous lone perpetrators. “These are not state-threatening troops,” said the parliamentary director of the AfD parliamentary group in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”. Although the attitudes of the two dozen men and women have been shown to be shaped by conspiracy theories, they do not have the skills to bring about a coup d’état. “That means there is no sign of this major threat yet.”
Baumann, who is a member of the interior committee, emphasized that the rule of law must take action against the “crazy” in any case, but questioned the proportionality of the police operation. “More weapons and money were probably found in individual clan raids than they are now.”
Among the 25 people arrested was a former AfD member of the Bundestag. Baumann criticized the fact that other possible party memberships of those involved were not examined and discussed. “Everything that is somehow right or AfD is immediately associated with something similar to civil war,” he said. This is an attempt to intimidate the opposition.
