Conditions similar to civil war and the overthrow of the government – these are the goals of an anti-state group that was exposed in April. The kidnapping of the Federal Minister of Health is also planned. The threads are said to have been pulled by a woman from Central Saxony, who is now being caught by the police.
In connection with the allegedly planned kidnapping of Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, the federal prosecutor’s office had a woman arrested on suspicion of terrorism. The authority in Karlsruhe announced that Elisabeth R. is said to be the leader of the anti-state group that was exposed in April. The Federal Public Prosecutor describes her as the “ringleader” of a terrorist organization. She was arrested in the district of Mittelsachsen.
According to the announcement, the German is said to have made specifications, among other things, to advance and coordinate the group’s plans. She was involved in procuring weapons and explosives, repeatedly called for the project to be implemented quickly and gave specific dates. In addition, Minister Lauterbach was to be kidnapped, with the killing of bodyguards in the room.
According to the information, searches were also carried out as part of the arrest. A magistrate is due to decide later today whether the woman will be remanded in custody. They are pursuing an ideology that rejects the Basic Law and the basic state order of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is said. Rather, according to these ideas, the German Reich continues to exist on the basis of the constitution of 1871.
Four suspected accomplices, all Germans from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Rhineland-Palatinate), Falkensee near Berlin and from the districts of Ammerland (Lower Saxony) and Landshut (Bavaria), were arrested on April 13. Almost two weeks later, the Attorney General took over the investigation.
According to the federal prosecutor’s office, the group had set itself the goal of triggering conditions similar to civil war in Germany and thus ultimately bringing about the fall of the federal government and parliamentary democracy. “The plan was to bring about a nationwide ‘black out’ by damaging or destroying power supply facilities,” the statement said.
The association was therefore divided into a “military” and an “administrative” branch. The arrested woman is therefore assigned to the administrative part. For example, she held recruitment talks with potential association members.
