New type of granny dropped

The group allegedly planned to kidnap Karl Lauterbach, the German health minister, who is a hate figure among the far-Right because of his advocacy of strict lockdowns during the pandemic.

The group then planned to carry out sabotage attacks on the electricity grid with the intent of causing a blackout so severe that it would lead to “civil war-like conditions”, the arrest warrant stated.

Four other members of the group were arrested in April. Police found a Kalashnikov gun and a Nazi SS uniform in one of the suspect’s homes.

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According to reports in the German press, she was known as “the countess” inside the Reichsbuerger scene, a loose movement that seeks to bring back the Prussian monarchy.

She appeared to have co-authored long texts arguing that the Treaty of Versailles, which brought about the end of the First World War, was invalid, and that Germany is still legally a monarchy.

    • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I mean there are definitely Romanovs still around, just that no one takes them seriously

      Also china didnt really kill their royals and their not a real political threat

      • hypercube [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi#Later_life_(1945%E2%80%931967) yeah their last emperor became a street sweeper/tour guide. also played a labour MP in a film about the Suez Crisis

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        if the chinese royals tried to claim they should own the country they would simply be told to shut up

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The Romanovs still exist and are squabbling along themselves about who has the most legitimate claim to the non-existing Russian throne. The women with the most "plausible" claim is sometimes invited to Russian state ceremonies. Some German nobility guy inherited a more far-fetched claim and converted to Russian orthodox Christianity in order to somehow revive the empire as an artificial crypto/nonce/libertarian island in the Pacific and converted back to Protestantism once that scheme failed. A third line of the Romanovs lives in the US and seems to be completely :grillman: about it all and doesn't claim anything.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        A third line of the Romanovs lives in the US and seems to be completely about it all and doesn’t claim anything.

        It's like the American Hitlers who are all like dentists and other :grillman: jobs and have no real connection to Adolf except some shared ancestry. I think one of them was a medic in the US Army during the war.