High-profile raids in late 2022 scuppered the alleged coup against the German state
Germany’s alleged coup: An aristocrat, an astrologer and an army officer go on trial for high treasonA policeman pulls a suitcase after a raid on a Berlin residence in a December 2022 operation targeting an alleged coup. Photograph: Carsten Koall/Getty Images’s first high-treason trial begins on Monday, the cast of colourful conspirators hold promise of a high-security, three-ring legal circus.
A new government was waiting in the wings with a monarch as head of state: Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss zu Köstritz, a 71-year-old property magnate and wine dealer from an aristocratic family. Monday’s trial in Stuttgart involves the paramilitary plotters facing charges of membership of a terrorist group and treason – the first time this charge has been brought in modern Germany.
Monday’s proceedings begin with a case against a defendant identified as Markus L who was arrested in March 2023, three months after the first raid. As well as terrorism and conspiracy charges, he is on trial for attempted murder for using a semi-automatic weapon in a shoot-out with arresting police, injuring two of them.
The Stuttgart trials will be key, too, in establishing just how far advanced the technical end of the alleged coup was given what prosecutors call the “confused” political planning of Reuss and his kitchen cabinet.
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