BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said that this week that police have detained three more suspected far-right extremists linked to an alleged plot by the Reichsbuerger, or Reich Citizens, movement to topple the country’s government.
The three suspects, who were only identified as Johanna F.-J., Hans-Joachim H. and Steffen W. in line with German privacy rules, were detained Monday evening in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The defendants are suspected of membership in a terrorist organization, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
In December, German police detained 25 people including a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a former judge who are accused of plotting the violent overthrow of the government.
Adherents of the Reich Citizens movement reject Germany’s postwar constitution and have called for bringing down the government.
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