Overview

• Around 50 officers from the Landeskriminalamt and a special operations unit searched the 54-year-old suspect’s house near Groß Wokern on June 16
• Investigators accuse the man of attending extremist meetings and offering to organise shooting training for the Kaiserreichsgruppe
• The group is charged with planning bomb attacks on critical power infrastructure to trigger a nationwide blackout
• Prosecutors say the plot aimed to kidnap Karl Lauterbach and replace Germany’s democratic order with an authoritarian regime inspired by the 1871 constitution
• Multiple trials against Kaiserreichsgruppe members are under way, with leading figures already sentenced to up to eight years in March