What did the group around Henry XIII. Prince Reuss owned for their coup plans? In addition to ammunition from the Bundeswehr stocks, the investigators found ten illegal firearms, but also many more legal firearms, according to a report. An insight into the internal organization was also discovered.
After the raid on the alleged “Reichsbürger” terrorist group, there are more details about the weapons seized. The police also discovered ammunition from Bundeswehr stocks, as reported by “Spiegel”. There are a little more than 100 cartridges from two lot numbers. Lot numbers are industrial numbers of the production batch. It’s about rifle ammunition in caliber 5.56 mm and combat ammunition, i.e. live ammunition.
According to a letter from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to the Bundestag’s Interior Committee, to which “Spiegel” refers, at least ten illegal firearms were discovered. The number could still increase: Other weapons are currently being forensically examined, the paper says.
In addition to illegal weapons, the 54 suspects from the milieu of “Reich citizens” and “lateral thinkers” had 94 legal weapons. According to the letter from the Ministry of the Interior, it is stored in the National Weapons Register. 63 of those legal firearms belonged to a gun dealer who is among the suspects.
But not only weapons came to light in the searches. The magazine also reports on an organizational chart of a planned new “Reich government” and around 120 documents in which suspected supporters of the group pledge themselves to the strictest secrecy. According to the investigators, those affected even faced the death penalty as a sanction for violations.
Last week, the Attorney General had 25 suspected members and helpers of the terrorist group arrested in a raid in Germany, Austria and Italy. Head of the troop are said to be Henry XIII. Prince Reuss and the former elite soldier Rüdiger von Pescatore. Around 5,000 police officers were deployed during the major operation, around 2,000 more than initially stated, the report goes on to say.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, the security authorities have confiscated the firearms of at least 1,050 “Reich citizens” in recent years. However, about 500 men and women from this milieu still legally had weapons, according to the letter to the interior committee.
