{"id":35142,"date":"2025-11-11T23:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35142"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:02:13","slug":"man-arrested-for-plotting-killings-of-german-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/man-arrested-for-plotting-killings-of-german-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for plotting killings of German politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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German police have arrested a man who allegedly made online calls on the darknet to kill politicians, including former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, judicial sources said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The suspect, a German-Polish man only partially named as Martin S., was detained late Monday in the western city of Dortmund, prosecutors said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A source close to the investigation told AFP the man had acted alone, was linked to a right-wing conspiracy theorist movement, and that Merkel and Scholz were among those on his hit list.<\/p>\n

The man had allegedly issued anonymous calls since June for attacks on public figures and government officials, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said.<\/p>\n

He also published instructions for building explosive devices and requested donations in cryptocurrencies, to be used as “bounties” for the killings.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said he had posted “death sentences pronounced by himself” as well as the “sensitive personal data of potential victims”.<\/p>\n

He is being investigated on charges including financing terrorism and inciting violence aimed at endangering the state.<\/p>\n

Martin S. was brought before a judge on Tuesday and placed in pre-trial detention, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Spiegel Online reported that the 49-year-old suspect listed 20 targets, also including judges and prosecutors, on a site he had labelled “Assassination Politics”. The site was filled with far-right content and conspiracy theories, some related to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

German authorities have increasingly moved against a conspiracy theorist movement known as the “Citizens of the Reich” or “Reichsbuerger”.<\/p>\n

The movement, which rejects the legitimacy of the modern German republic, was long dismissed as a group of malcontents and oddballs, but is now considered a security threat by German authorities.<\/p>\n

In 2022, members of a group including an ex-MP and former soldiers were arrested over a plot to attack parliament, overthrow the government and install aristocrat and businessman Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss as head of state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

German police have arrested a man who allegedly made online calls on the darknet to kill politicians, including former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, judicial sources said Tuesday. The suspect, a German-Polish man only partially named as Martin S., was detained late Monday in the western city of Dortmund, prosecutors said in a statement. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35144,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35142\/revisions\/35144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}