Overview

• Special police units from the Bavarian LKA and Munich prosecutors detained three men during dawn raids in Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia for suspected ties to Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuß’s Reichsbürger network.
• Investigators allege the suspects belong to a designated terrorist organization intent on violently overthrowing Germany’s constitutional order.
• Authorities say the three men took part in firearms training with short and long weapons in April 2022 at a former Bundeswehr range near Bayreuth to prepare for a potential Bundestag attack.
• Searches in Forchheim, Nürnberger Land, the Erzgebirgskreis, Chemnitz and Eichsfeld yielded weapons-regulated items and data carriers now undergoing forensic analysis.
• Prosecutors are investigating six individuals—five men and one woman aged 40 to 61—and three of those arrested had pre-existing warrants as part of ongoing terror trials against the group.