They had planned an armed attack on the Bundestag to establish a new state. Twenty-five Members of a far-right terrorist group were arrested this morning at dawn, in the largest anti-terrorist operation conducted by the German police in Germany. In the group of so-called «citizens of the Reich» ended up in handcuffs, even a former German colonel arrested in a hotel in Perugia by the Italian police on a European mandate. His name is Maximilian Eder and from what the authorities say he would be a militant of the movement Querdenker “lateral thinkers”, very active on social media in the propaganda of far-right ideas in analogy to what the American group of QAnon promotes. Eder had distinguished himself in recent months for having taken part – in uniform and beret – in protests against the restrictions imposed by the German government to stem the Coronavirus pandemic. But in addition to the 64-year-old in the archipelago animated by anti-Semites and Pan-Germans, on the front line against the anti-Covid measures, also the president of the council of the group Heinrich XIII Reussa prince originally from Thuringia, and the judge of Berlin Birgit Malsack Winkemann.
Eder’s recruitment role
The 64-year-old German would have had a recruitment role and probably of weapons to carry out the alleged assault on the Bundestag. “This is the task that the man would have had, according to what is learned from the media channels following the vast operation carried out by the German judicial authority”, underlined the chief executive of Digos, Gianfranco Levaduring this afternoon’s press conference. Maximilian Eder would also have left the far-right group with which he had planned to storm the German parliament and then be readmitted with this new recruiting role. Arrived come on Balkans and not directly from Germany as previously stated, Eder was not carrying any weapons at the time of his arrest.
He had been in Perugia for a week
The former lieutenant of the German military special forces, stopped this morning – Wednesday 7 December – in a hotel in Ponte San Giovanni on the outskirts of Perugia, did not “oppose any resistance” at the time of his arrest, also showing himself “surprised” by the break-in of Digos of the Umbrian capital in his hotel room. As explained by the manager of the head of the police department, Gianfranco Leva, in the man was seized “a laptop and other material deemed of interest which will be made available by the German judicial authority”. During the press conference, Leva also underlined how Maximilian Eder “He had been in Perugia for a week” and from the investigations “he would not have had any particular visits to the place. We are unable to say whether he had direct contacts in the city at the moment, we will verify it with the continuation of the investigations themselves », he concluded. Furthermore, according to the police, the 64-year-old would have chosen to stay in a hotel also to take advantage of the structure’s wi-fi network so as to evade direct controls on his own internet networks.
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