In a strange incident, German federal prosecutors announced today, Thursday, that police had arrested a woman suspected of involvement in an attempt to kidnap Health Minister Karl Lauterbach earlier this year.
In detail, prosecutors stated that the woman, a German identified by the prosecution as Elizabeth R. Only, she is suspected of being the leader of an extremist group that plotted to kidnap Lauterbach and destroy electricity facilities to cut off service nationwide.
Conspiracy with weapons and explosives
They added that she was involved in masterminding the plot on behalf of the extremist group, so she bought weapons and explosives and recruited people of the same ideology.
They also revealed that this group had set itself the goal of creating conditions similar to the civil war in Germany, and they decided to eventually overthrow the federal government and parliamentary democracy.
German police – AFP
Prosecutors said Elizabeth R. Before a federal judge later Thursday to decide whether she will remain in detention until formal charges are brought against her.
The guards were also killed
It is noteworthy that the police announced, after the failed kidnapping attempt in April, 4 others who said they belonged to groups that opposed the restrictions imposed to combat Covid-19 and were affiliated with the far-right Reichsberger movement, which denies the existence of the modern German state.
Demonstrations against the isolation measures due to Corona in Germany (AFP)
To this end, the group planned to cut off electricity nationwide and kidnap Lauterbach, and if necessary kill his bodyguards.