Austrian authorities have extradited to Germany a man arrested as part of the operation on Austrian territory against Reich Citizens, a right-wing extremist organization that sought to overthrow the German government.
The Austrian authorities have handed over the suspect, a 62-year-old German citizen, to the German police at a border crossing in Kufstein-Kiefersfelden, between Tyrol and Bavaria, according to the Innsbruck Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Police arrested the suspect in the Austrian district of Kitzbuhel on December 7, the same date on which German and Italian authorities carried out a raid in which more than 20 people were arrested.
This extradition comes in the same week that an Italian court ruled that the suspect arrested by Italian police near Perugia could be extradited to face charges in Germany as well.
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 Citizens of the Reich, 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)
