One of the largest state security trials in German history, involving suspected members of a far-right plot to seize power which “would involve killing people”, started in Stuttgart on Monday.
In the first of three separate court cases against a total of 27 suspects, nine alleged members of a suspected terrorist organisation went on trial accused of high treason and plotting a violent coup d’état. They are alleged to have planned to storm the Reichstag and install a Fourth Reich, led by the disenchanted aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss.
