Self-declared ‘king of Germany’ Peter Fitzek arrested in Reichsbürger coup plot

Self -styled “King” of Germany And three of his higher “subjects” were arrested for attempting to overthrow the state, according to media reports.

Peter Fitzek, 59, was taken to police custody during the morning raids carried out on Tuesday in seven German countries, the BBC reported.

Fitzek’s group, Reichsbürger, or “Reich citizens”, also banned the Government.

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Peter Fitzek, the self -proclaimed head of the so -called “Kingdom of German”, poses for a photo with the royal Constitution in Wittenberg, Germany, October 2, 2023. (Jens Schwetter / AFP via Gety Images)

The aim of the group is to establish Königreich Deutschland or the “Kingdom of German”.

“I have no interest in being part of this fascist and Satanic system,” Fitzek told News Outlet earlier in an interview with 2022.

Reichsbürgers reportedly has its own currency, flags and identification cards and want to set separate banking and health systems.

Reichsbürger undermined “the rule of the law,” said Alexander Dobindt, a German interior minister, creating an alternative state and spreading “an anti -Semitic story of conspiracy to support their alleged request for authority,” the news report said.

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Peter Fitzek, the self -proclaimed head of the so -called “Kingdom of German”, shows a paper currency he created in Wittenberg, Germany, October 2, 2023. (Jens Schuter / AFP)

Said the group is funded Through the crime.

Fitzek, who claims to have thousands of “subjects”, denied that he had violent intentions, but also called Germany “destructive and sick”.

In 2022, dozens of people associated with Reichsbürger were arrested for planning the overthrow of the German government in Berlin. They were accused of planning a violent coup, which included the abduction of the Minister of Health in an effort to create a “civil war conditions” for the descent of German democracy, according to Bbc.

The independent identity and banking documents of the so -called “Kingdom of Germany” were shown in Wittenberg, Germany, October 2, 2023. (Jens Schwetter / AFP via Gety Images)

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Once critics rejected as eccentric, the group is now seen in Germany as A serious threat As the extreme right has increased politically over the past decade, the report states.