German police arrest four over alleged plot to kidnap health minister

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

German police have detained four German nationals suspected of plotting to kidnap the German health minister, Karl Lauterbach, and destroy power facilities to cause a nationwide power outage.

“The two main suspects are believed to have agreed with others to mount an attack on the federal health minister,” a spokesperson for the Koblenz prosecutor’s office said on Thursday, confirming a report by German broadcaster ARD.

The suspects detained this week were affiliated with groups that protested against Covid-19 restrictions, and with the far-right “Reichsbürger” movement, which denies the existence of the modern German state, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The plot to kidnap Lauterbach is the latest in a series of incidents that have highlighted the anger of some Germans over restrictions on people not vaccinated against coronavirus and proposals to make vaccination compulsory for the general public.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/german-police-arrest-four-over-alleged-plot-to-kidnap-health-minister

[texasfiddler]

1. If they could somehow move the trial to Michigan, the German Nationals would be just fine. NT

[empedocles]

2. Always some people around

' . . . far-right “Reichsbürger” movement, which denies the existence of the modern German state, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. . . . '

[gibraltar72]

3. They should ask to be tried in Michigan.