A court in the Italian city of Perugia on Monday authorized the extradition to Germany of a former German Armed Forces officer arrested in an operation against Citizens of the Reich, a right-wing extremist organization that sought to overthrow the German government.
The German citizen, 64 years old, was the subject of a Euro warrant issued from Germany and for which he was arrested last December 7 in a hotel in Ponte San Giovanni, near Perugia, report the Italian agencies ANSA and ADNKronos.
The Italian authorities were alerted to the arrival of this individual in the country and have been monitoring him ever since. As soon as the Euro warrant was issued, he was arrested.
At least 25 suspects, including the former deputy of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, have been arrested in connection with the group, which follows a conglomeration of conspiracy myths and has been labeled as terrorist by the government.
Those arrested belong to an organization whose alleged ringleaders have been identified as ‘Ruediger’ and ‘Prince Henrich XIII’. The latter would be the great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II of Germany, the last German emperor and king of Prussia, who was forced to abdicate in 1918 after World War I.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
