The Independent: The comical coup plot in Germany should be taken seriously
The Independent published an article by Borzo Dragahi entitled “Why Germany’s comical Coup Plot Should Be Taken Seriously”.
The article indicated that it is a strange, crazy and difficult scheme to implement, represented in controlling the fourth largest economy in the world, abolishing its democracy, and installing a mysterious seventy-year-old aristocrat as an emperor.
When the German authorities began monitoring the extremist “Reichsburger” movement earlier this year, they considered it a serious threat, and placed it at the top of their security priorities.
On Wednesday, he says, 3,000 units of German police and Special Forces were deployed in 11 out of 16 German states, and arrested 25 people in 130 raids.
The article says, “It was shocking to Europe that a plot to seize the government and end Germany’s seven decades of democracy had evolved to merit such a major government move, but experts say it highlights how serious the threat the far-right has become, even With the diminishing threat of ISIS and Islamic extremism.
“Germany has often described the far-right as the biggest threat to its security in the wake of repeated and sometimes deadly attacks by fringe groups against politicians and immigrants”.
A Home Office report published this year said: “The greatest extremist threat to our democracy is right-wing extremism.
The “Reichsburger” movement, whose name means “citizens of the empire,” is a movement fueled by the rise of right-wing populism, the continuing impact of the Covid-19 epidemic and the spread of conspiracy theories inspired by the United States.
He says the organization, which has 21,000 members, is staunchly opposed to the current German government, and some of its members espouse explicit neo-Nazi views, including Holocaust denial.
