Overview

• Munich prosecutors detained three unnamed men in Bavaria on Thursday on suspicion of supporting a far-right plot to violently overthrow Germany’s constitutional government.
• Investigators linked the suspects to paramilitary training in April 2022 at a former Bundeswehr range near Bayreuth that was meant to ready an attack on parliament.
• Early-morning raids targeted eight properties across Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia, yielding weapons, computers and documents.
• The arrests mark the latest phase in a multi-year judicial campaign that has brought dozens of Reichsbürger members to trial, including aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss.
• All defendants continue to deny terrorism and high-treason charges as authorities press ahead with one of Germany’s largest postwar extremism prosecutions.