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.
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.
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.