Reichsbürger sandwich -25 arrested in Germany

[NYGman]

Per the article, "The plotters are said to include members of the extremist Reichsbürger [Citizens of the Reich] movement." As we all know Includes is definitive, so obviously all arrested are members Reichsbürger movement. This is what happes when LARPing goes to far.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63885028

[eric]

And of course there's a Canadian connection.... Sort of a back to the land/survivalist colony movement. In roughly chronological order:
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/investig ... pe-breton/
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/investig ... pe-breton/
https://nationalpost.com/news/nazi-symp ... man-report
https://porthawkesburyreporter.com/eckh ... s-charges/
Eckhardt, Herman, and Popp apparently advertised their land for sale at Reichsbuerger seminars and such to create a colony where they could do their own stuff.

[ArthurWankspittle]

I think one of the UK guru types was in contact with them some time back too.

[ArthurWankspittle]

More from the beeb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63916812

[Pottapaug1938]

I still say that "Reichsbürger" sounds like a burger chain where the staff wears Prussian uniforms, complete with pickelhaube and jackboots, and where the managers wear officers' uniforms, and have the arrogance to match. The burgers are served on the point of a bayonet.

[jcolvin2]

I think one of the UK guru types was in contact with them some time back too.

Didn’t Peter of England travel to Germany and Austria to meet with the Reichsburger crowd several years ago?

[morrand]

More activity:

Raids linked to the group continued this week, with German officials on Thursday saying they had placed one person who was a suspected member and supporter under formal arrest after a police offer was shot and wounded on Wednesday.

Germany's Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said the shooting "shows how dangerous the missions are. It is the duty of the authorities to disarm Reichsbürger." ...

Werner Patzelt, a political scientist and former professor at TU Dresden, believes the Reichsbürger is less of a "movement" but rather "a loosely coupled network of political stupids who believe that, or at least behave as if, the Federal Republic of Germany does not exist."

Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, "The far-out, far-right plot that Germany is still trying to unravel." CNN.com (March 25, 2023).

"Political stupids"! I suspect Germany, or some part of it anyway, is getting mighty tired of the Reichsbürger.