Trial begins against suspected right-wing terrorists from the group around Prince Reuss. Photo: Lichtgut/Julian Rettig
The trial of nine suspected right-wing terrorists from Prince Reuss’ group begins on Monday morning in the high-security building of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court in Stammheim.
The trial of nine defendants from the alleged right-wing terrorist group around Heinrich XIII begins this Monday at 9 a.m. in the branch of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court in Stammheim. Prince Reuss. The Federal Prosecutor General (GBA) accuses the men of having prepared a violent overthrow in Germany through a treasonous operation, of wanting to eliminate the state order and replace it with their own, fundamentally developed form of government.
Who is accused in Stuttgart?
Nine men from the alleged terrorist group have been charged before the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court. The GBA attributes this to the “military arm” of the network. This should have enforced the takeover of power by force. To this end, the group has begun to set up 286 “homeland security companies” across Germany. The defendants include a former Bundeswehr soldier who acted as an interface to the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement on the KSK staff, i.e. who initiated and supervised the testing and procurement of new equipment for the command.
What does a Reutlingen sports shooter have to do with the suspected terrorist group?
The defendants also include a sports shooter from Reutlingen, who initially only came into the investigators’ crosshairs as a possible witness. However, during a house search on March 22, 2023, he shot at the invading special operations squad police officers with a rapid-fire rifle from his living room and injured two officers, one of them seriously. The defendant had barricaded himself behind a swivel television chair protected by bulletproof vests.
Who is leading the Stuttgart process?
The chairman of the 3rd Criminal Senate of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court is Joachim Holzhausen. He brings 32 years of experience as a judge to the proceedings. Process observers consider him to be very meticulous and structured. But also as a diplomat in a robe who builds bridges for the accused and witnesses to talk. During the 50 days of the trial involving the rocker-like group “Osmanen Germania Boxing Club,” which is close to Turkish President Erdogan, he got witnesses to talk simply by letting them speak the way they were used to: “Just talk to me . I’ll ask if I don’t understand something.”
When will the other proceedings against the alleged terrorist group “Prince Reuss” begin?
The trial involving Prince Reuss, his partner, the former AfD member of the Bundestag and judge Birgit Malsack-Winkemann as well as three former Bundeswehr officers and an ex-police officer begins on May 21st before the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court. Six men and two women are accused in Munich. The 9th Criminal Senate will be negotiating there from June 18th. The procedures are initially scheduled to run until January 2025 at all three locations. “The fact that three state security senates have to deal with the same suspected terrorist organization, which has never been judicially identified, is a novelty in the history of German state security,” said the President of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court, Andreas Singer