German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser thanked the security services who she said had broken up “another suspected terrorist group of militant right-wing extremists”.
It comes after a separate alleged coup plot, led by the so-called Reichsbuerger movement, was exposed in 2022.
That group, once dismissed as crackpots, allegedly planned to arrest MPs in Berlin on a day it also dubbed “Day X”.
The plot would have seen 72-year-old aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss installed as “head of state”, prosecutors alleged at the time. Prince Reuss has denied involvement.
When nine members of the group, including Prince Reuss, went on trial in May this year, their defence lawyer said: “They’re not terrorists. They’re slightly crazy.”
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the suspected members of the Saxony Separatists will appear before a judge, who will read out arrest warrants and make decisions about their pre-trial detention.
