The German authorities announced on Tuesday for searches against a conspirator and extremist network throughout the country and pronounced the dissolution of “the largest organization” of this accused movement “to attack the liberal democratic order.”
Searches have been launched in seven regions of the country aimed at the “Kingdom of Germany” association, the Interior Ministry announced in a press release about this group that has approximately 6,000 supporters that “deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and reject its legal system.”
The “Kingdom of Germany” association (“Königreich Deutschland”) is prohibited since Tuesday because “its objectives and activities are contrary to criminal legislation and go against the constitutional order and the idea of understanding among the peoples,” explains the ministry that the prohibition also refers to “the many organizations affiliated with this association.”
About fifteen arrests
The federal prosecution has also announced, within the framework of this operation, the arrest of four people, including three founding members of this group that for ten years has established “structures and institutions of pseudo-states”, especially creating a banking and insurance system, a registration office with fictional identity documents and a clean currency.
Qualified as “dangerous extremists” by the Ministry, “Königreich Deutschland” is part of the German conspirator movement of “Reichsbürger” (“Citizens of the Reich”), rejecting the legitimacy of the Modern German Republic: they believe in the sustainability of the German Reich before the First World War, in the form of a monarchy. Several groups of supporters have declared the creation of their own mini states.
According to German internal intelligence services, this movement had around 23,000 members in 2022. The “kingdom of Germany” has been “expanding” for years, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
Entrance to office last week, the new government coalition led by the conservative Failedrich Merz must face the progression of the extremist ideologies of the right.
AFD’s AFD party is now the first opposition force in the Chamber of Deputies after obtaining a record score in the February legislative elections.
Source: BFM TV
