‘Protecting our democracy’: German police foil alleged coup plot
by Lenora Chu
Dec 07, 2022
3 minutes
German police conducted the largest operation in their postwar history on Wednesday, staging over 130 raids on suspected terrorist-linked properties and arresting 25 people alleged to be involved in a plot to violently overthrow the government.
“The investigation will foremost give us a clear picture of how far along the coup planning actually was,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement.
But the authorities held such strong suspicions about the target group’s “violent steps to carry out its action, that the Federal Court of Justice ordered investigative measures,” Justice Minister Marco Buschmann tweeted.
The group
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